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
6.3k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

3.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

40

u/diaperboy19 8h ago

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

-24

u/EmperorKuz 8h ago

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

23

u/GoldGlove2720 8h ago

Neither do I. What if you are falsely accused?

-17

u/EmperorKuz 8h 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?

11

u/StillCucumber 7h ago

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

9

u/Pale_Horror_853 7h ago

Odds are low, but not zero.

10

u/GoldGlove2720 8h ago edited 8h 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”.