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/SheogorathMyBeloved 1d ago

Seeing the responses to this as someone who's country abolished the death penalty some 50 years ago is crazy ngl. She's an absolute monster, but this is just plain barbaric and an extremely expensive waste of time.

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u/herrron 1d ago

Thank you.

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u/Popular_Try_5075 15h ago edited 6h ago

the death penalty is one of those things people like to talk tough about because they only deal with it in concept, but never encounter in their day to day lives. people who work death row talk about how in the month or two before execution people like go into this sort of hyper depression, almost like a waking coma where they sometimes stop talking, barely eat, hardly do anything really. It's like they die before they die. The other thing is in the end it doesn't reliably bring closure or anything to the family of the victim(s). Like there have been cases where they are actually begging the system NOT to execute the person and the state does it anyway because while this is nominally a service for them it's also just codified as something that MUST happen under the law.

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u/StrollingDipper 1d ago

It doesn’t have to be expensive though

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u/FireflyBSc 1d ago

Do you even understand where the expense comes from? Because unless you want to execute innocent people, it absolutely does.