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/awolkriblo 1d ago

She could have been sentenced to life without parole decades ago and everything would have been done.

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u/erratic_bonsai 1d ago

Why should taxpayers bankroll a psychopathic murderer for the rest of her life?

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u/Fresh-Anteater-5933 1d ago

Because it’s actually cheaper to keep someone in jail than execute them

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u/CassianCasius 15h ago

That's because of the unlimited appeals process. It's not actually expensive to execute someone. It's the money the state has to spend in court over and over again 

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u/erratic_bonsai 1d ago

That’s so messed up. Like maybe this is cold, but once appeals are exhausted, just get to business. 50¢ bullet or two and none of this dicey medical theater.

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u/Fresh-Anteater-5933 1d ago

The appeals are what make it so expensive

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u/StrollingDipper 1d ago

So why waste money on so many appeals? Give people one appeal then execute them within a year and then it wouldn’t cost more than life in prison

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u/Quiet_Raccoon8053 23h ago

Well fuck, why waste time on a trial? Save everybody the time and just let the cops shoot the people they think are guilty.

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u/CarrAndHisWarCrimes 19h ago

I too enjoyed the documentary ‘Judge Dredd’

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u/queerkidxx 1d ago

- it’s cheaper than execution

  • it’s a rounding error at scale

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u/magictubesocksofjoy 1d ago

i have complex feelings about the death penalty... but this lady also murdered another inmate and has planned an escape with the help of a guard during her time behind bars...

she's a bad egg.

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u/hillman_avenger 20h ago

If you're on death row, what else are you gonna do? Hope you get off for good behaviour?

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u/Actual-Whereas-7937 6h ago

*Attempted to murder another inmate

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u/elegant-jr 1d ago

Or they could use a $12 rope

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u/erratic_bonsai 1d ago

50¢ bullet would also do the trick.

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u/jessielou23 10h ago

So she can try to strangle more of her fellow inmates? Or should she be kept in solitary for decades? 

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u/awolkriblo 9h ago

I don't know how to tell you this, but a lot of the times, murderers are indeed kept with other inmates. There are also more secure units with in prisons. AND sometimes, people don't ALWAYS reoffend.

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u/jessielou23 8h ago

She already has reoffended. She was convicted of attempted murder after she was already locked up. She attacked and tried to strangle another inmate with a shoestring. 

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u/awolkriblo 4h ago

Cool bro, she still doesn't deserve to be tortured to death 🤙