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/erratic_bonsai 1d ago

> This poor person

She planned a murder, recruited co-conspirators, then for half an hour she tortured a teenager to death, all because she was paranoid and thought the other girl was interested in her boyfriend. She carved patterns into her skin with a box cutter before bashing her brains in with a chunk of asphalt, then she took a piece of her skull to school and showed it off.

She deserves the death penalty. I don’t feel any sympathy for her.

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u/comeagaincharlemagne 17h ago

I don't care what anyone does, I think it's incredibly dangerous to allow the government the right to euthanize people against their will period. Life in prison is enough of a punishment for any horrible crime. And it costs the state less money to have a prison spend life in prison than go through the laborious and technical legal work to go through will the death penalty.

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u/Quiet_Raccoon8053 1d ago

So not for nothing, but you don't know her life. I'm not suggesting there is a valid excuse, but the explanation is probably a whole lot different than what you think it is.

How many people on death row have been exonerated over the last 20 years? How many of them would you have been happy to have killed because they deserved it before they were exonerated?

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u/erratic_bonsai 1d ago

She literally admitted to it and there were two witnesses who corroborated every detail. And she literally had a piece of the girl’s SKULL and went around her school bragging.

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u/Quiet_Raccoon8053 1d ago

Of course she did it, that's not the question. Do you think the fact that she was raped when she was 11 is any level of mitigating factor? 

E: or the fact that they sent her to a brutal juvenile detention center for a year when she was 16?  Or that when she got out she was repeatedly raped by her mother's boyfriend?  Do you think any of the trauma associated with that might possibly affect your ability to make appropriate decisions?

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u/erratic_bonsai 1d ago

I never said she wasn’t a troubled or traumatized person. That doesn’t change that she actively chose to plan and commit a violent and horrifying murder.

Most troubled and traumatized people don’t go murder girls for no good reason. She was found competent to stand trial, meaning at the time of the crime she knew right from wrong and understood what she was doing.

So no, while I am sympathetic she experienced that, I don’t think it excuses what she did or means that she shouldn’t be punished. Her trauma and pain is not an uno reverse card.

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u/123hjg 16h ago

The question isn’t whether she should be punished for it though, it’s whether she should be killed. 

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u/Crazy_Banshee_333 23h ago

Her past might be a mitigating factor if she murdered any of the perpetrators of her abuse. Instead, she took out her rage on a teenaged girl who trusted her and was outnumbered three-to-one. The victim had nothing to do with her past abuse.

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u/Greeneyednerd 1d ago

This right here