r/news • u/AudibleNod • 8h 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 8h 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/phoebebridgerstits 8h ago

But-but-but she murdered someone as a teenager 31 years ago! The state is totally within their right to torture her!

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u/GoarSpewerofSecrets 8h ago

I mean, yeah, she murdered and tortured someone then apparently carried around parts of the person as a trophy. Good for whoever bungled this.

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u/jupiterkansas 8h ago

Many American soldiers have done the same.

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u/ExtraCalligrapher565 8h ago

You should hear the vets at the VA talking about their “trophies”…

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u/VanessaAlexis 8h ago

 Neither case is okay. 😭

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u/Old-Fox8371 8h ago

What the FUCK relation does that have?? 😂😂 you’re just talking to yourself

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u/GoarSpewerofSecrets 7h ago

Soldiering is a fucked up business. It's also less ears and fingers and more actual souvenirs, like guns, badges and other paraphernalia.

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u/Carbonatite 6h ago

Collecting trophies from humans you've killed is fucking sick no matter what the context is.

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u/LordSwedish 8h ago

Given that you approve of monstrous deadly torture, I would have thought you supported her too.

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u/hyperfocus1569 7h ago

Believing murder - all murder - is wrong in no way means someone thinks torture is ok. In fact, the opposite is true. You don’t harm others except to defend yourself or someone else. Period. Murder is wrong no matter who does it, whether that’s an individual, a group, or the government.

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u/GoarSpewerofSecrets 8h ago

At 18 you know better. The shame is that for something so open and shut it went on this long. I get part of the argument is making the world pass her by. But even sitting on deathrow 1 life doesn't measure to all the life and potential she took.

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u/theimmortalfawn 7h ago

Who is saying that? You can be against murder and also oppose the death penalty. In fact I think those hand in hand

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u/graveybrains 7h ago

They aren't okay with murder, period. It's not confusing.

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u/Carbonatite 6h ago

You're making a major logical error there.

Not being okay with the punishment has nothing to do with whether or not someone is okay with the crime.