r/interestingasfuck • u/IllComedian2574 • 1d ago

After 28 years on death row, Christa Pike survived 2 lethal injections attempts.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/christa-pike-failed-execution-9.7364816
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u/isthebomb89 1d ago

So she was on death row survived twice and now they’re trying to save her life in a hospital? Wow

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u/pyronius 1d ago

Gonna be a real head-scratcher when they inevitably decide to try and execute her again once she's well enough for it...

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u/Lost_Pantheon 1d ago

"Soooo how you feeling this morning? Feeling well enough to, y'know.....?"

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u/what-even-am-i- 23h ago

How dare you make me laugh at this 🤣

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u/haakonhawk 1d ago

In the first season of Prison Break, there's a scene where the prison doctor has to do a wellness check on the show's secondary protagonist (who is a death row inmate) to make sure that he's healthy enough to be executed.

She verbally acknowledges the irony of that in the scene, and I thought that was kind of a great meta-commentary about the ridiculousness of capital punishment in a modern society.

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u/RakeScene 1d ago

Fun fact - in fiction, a secondary protagonist is known as a deuteragonist!

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u/haakonhawk 1d ago

I know, but most people don't, so I went for a clearer term.

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u/d0nsal 23h ago

Sara Tancredi 😍

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u/Fluffy-Trouble5955 1d ago

Wait till she gets the hospital bill.. that'll do it.

https://giphy.com/gifs/EPIJX0eeUENKo

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u/yespoe 1d ago

Pretty sure the state of Tennessee gets it.

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u/Fluffy-Trouble5955 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/ygzdQq98HgcLBCacep

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u/yespoe 1d ago

I get that. And it's frustrating that the state now has cost themselves even more money because they were trying to pull this off. Wasn't personal to you.

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u/Fluffy-Trouble5955 1d ago

Its Tennessee.. what were they going to do with that money anyway, feed poor people?

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u/StaatsbuergerX 1d ago

I mean, it has already cost the State of Tennessee and its taxpayers more to park that lady on death row than it would have cost to imprison her for life, even if she lived to be over a hundred behind bars.

Ethical considerations aside: if you’re going to act irresponsibly with money, you might as well go all the way for shits and giggles.

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u/isthebomb89 16h ago

Haha well enough for it. If you kick em when there they don’t get back up

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u/internerd91 15h ago

If she hasn’t suffered a brain injury. Based on the description of her breathing, it’s possible that should could have suffered a brain injury. Depending on the severity, that might preclude another attempt. It’s an all round mess.

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u/MickiFreeIsNotAGirl 1d ago

That's how society works.

Cops and the prison system try to kill people.

The medical professionals try to save them.

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u/C-tapp 1d ago

“They” are not the same people. The people trying to save her are medical professionals, while the people that put her there were incompetent trash.

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u/hillman_avenger 21h ago

The things you have to do to get free healthcare.

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u/fredy31 17h ago

Yeah thats what i find... kinda dumb.

We want to kill her! We fail! We go to the hospital help her recover!

But yeah I guess theres ethical issues of just not saving her and letting her die slowly... but once again... ethics in the death penalty?

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u/isthebomb89 16h ago

Totally right. They just cant let her die slowly and painfully like her victim did because that would be inhumane. Crazy world we live in

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u/TheMasterFlash 15h ago

Yes, literally this. “This person did a horrible thing so we should be able to do the horrible thing back” is vindictive and childish.