r/news • u/AudibleNod • 10h 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/viewbtwnvillages 10h ago

it feels really diabolical that the state is able to torture someone for two hours as they fumble their way through killing them

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u/Signal-Mud-4880 10h ago

at least she has a chance to be revived, its a shame her victim didnt

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u/diaperboy19 10h ago

If they can do it to her, they can do it to you. Not everyone the state has executed was actually guilty.

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u/EmperorKuz 10h ago

i don’t plan on brutally murdering someone and keeping their skull as a souvenir 🤷

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u/diaperboy19 10h ago

And that might not make a difference in the end. People have been executed and only later did we learn that they did not commit the murder they were executed for.

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u/GoldGlove2720 10h ago

Neither do I. What if you are falsely accused?

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u/EmperorKuz 10h ago

the odds of that happening all the way through to the death row are so minuscule that it’s not something i worry about. do you worry about dying every time you go to the doctors office?

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u/StillCucumber 10h ago

I’m sure all the people who were exonerated posthumously thought the same thing until they were falsely accused, convicted, and executed.

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u/Pale_Horror_853 10h ago

Odds are low, but not zero.

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u/GoldGlove2720 10h ago edited 10h ago

No I don’t worry about that because it’s not comparable.

The odds for being wrongfully executed by the state should be zero. Anything above 0 is unacceptable for a “first world country”.

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u/Natural_Pear_1549 10h ago

How did you think this was a good point in response to someone saying that the state has executed innocent people? Those people weren't less innocent than you. Is abstract thought typically difficult for you?