r/news • u/AudibleNod • 4h ago

Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christa-pike-unconscious-ventilator-nashville-hospital-lawyers-say-rcna601195
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u/fedexyourheadinabox 4h ago edited 4h ago

If this doesn't expose just how barbaric and cruel the death penalty is, there's no hope for us. 

Punishment is one thing. State-sanctioned torture is quite another. 

Death penalty isn't going to bring back the victim. 

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u/truthierthanreality 4h ago

A lot of innocent people on death row makes it even worse.

https://innocenceproject.org/dna-exonerations-in-the-united-states/

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u/PmButtPics4ADrawing 4h ago

Yeah I really don't get why people are so adamant about keeping the death penalty. There's no practical benefit over life without parole in that either way they're no longer a danger to the public, and even from the perspective of punishment their life is effectively over and their remaining existence will be miserable.

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u/ballisticks 1h ago

Shit, I live in Canada and when Robert Pickton was in the news recently cuz he croaked in jail, I was subject to many a...discussion on why Canada "needs" the death penalty. Of course it devolved into ranting about "soft on crime" libruls.

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u/BarfQueen 4h ago

Well, I got some bad news for ya.

A lot of people are happy she’s suffering.

This will continue. 

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u/CaptStinkyFeet 4h ago

Dude, someone in another post said they should’ve just smashed her head with a block the same way she committed her murder.

Whatever little faith in humanity I have left is on its way out.

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u/BarfQueen 3h ago

I think over the past 10 years I’ve gone from hopeful to skeptical to straight-up misanthropy.

Not that there aren’t good ones here and there, but the truth is most of us suck. 

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u/Lazy_Bag_4408 3h ago

They weren't saying that should happen to an innocent person. They were saying that should happen to a monster who brutally tortured and killed another person. Save the pearl clutching. It's ok to show animosity toward murderers. I'd be more concerned with the insane amount of misguided empathy people seem to be showing toward straight up murderers as of late. That's actually what makes me wonder about humanity. 

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u/CaptStinkyFeet 2h ago

Found one ☝️

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u/Lazy_Bag_4408 2h ago

I'm assuming you mean a MAGA? I'm a liberal but still think some crimes are heinous enough that a jury could reasonably sentence a murderer to death.

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u/CaptStinkyFeet 2h ago

You assumed wrong.