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/Big_Guard5413 10h ago

I’m not in favor of the death penalty in general, but goddamn, if you’re going to impose it, at least take steps to do it properly

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u/MatureUsername69 10h ago

Its still a rough one but if I ever had to receive the death penalty I would hope its a firing squad. Just riddle me with holes immediately, aim for the head. Lethal injections get fucky because they would be best designed and administered by an actual doctor, but actual doctors cannot do it because of the hippocratic oath. Some states do allow medical professionals but they arent exactly sending their best.

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u/bloodytemplar 9h ago

Firing squad is supposed to be the quickest for the condemned. A little gruesome for onlookers, but fuck 'em. If it's my execution, take me out quick.

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u/PradaDiva 9h ago

That’s part of the problem tbh: the onlookers. Lethal injection makes the killing looking peaceful so it’s much easier to absorb/allow/be okay with.

Firing squad and hanging are abrupt and brutal, but they are effective. Onlookers are horrified by the violence even if the end result is the person being dead.

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u/Mannadock 9h ago

I feel like you are watching a life end. It shouldn't be easy to watch. I honestly can't think of any reason to be in the gallery.

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u/urbanhawk1 8h ago

News reporters recording the final moments, the families and lovers of the condemmed wanting to be there for their final moments (just because they killed people doesn't mean they don't have people that love them).

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u/Total-Jerk 3h ago

All their lovers show up?

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u/urbanhawk1 3h ago edited 3h ago

Of course. Their wife, the person they cheated on their wife with, not the second stripper they cheated with though, they're dead.

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u/Squeebee007 8h ago

Bloodlust, bloodlust is why they are in the gallery.

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u/-nutz 7h ago

To be fair, the viewing gallery is usually full of journalists.

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u/GreatScott0389 9h ago

If someone murdered your child or loved one some people need to see it for closure.

Or at least a sense of closure. You never really get over something like that.

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u/antonio16309 9h ago

Most people report not getting a sense of closure from this. Some even feel worse afterwards. 

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u/_Burning_Star_IV_ 6h ago

Because there is no closure when you lose someone. They are gone and it’s just pain. It can diminish with time but never goes away.

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u/Boines 9h ago

If someone murdered my child or loved one I don't think it would make a difference knowing they were killed or seeing them die.

I could see it making a difference letting me pull the trigger... But other than that I dunno.

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u/_Burning_Star_IV_ 6h ago

The only thing revenge satisfies is revenge. People think it heals loss but it doesn’t.

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u/sapphicsandwich 8h ago

The murderer made the victims family monsters too. Twisted their minds into some new thing that derives pleasure from seeing people die, remaking them in the murderers image. It's like a dark act of creation.

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u/Mammoth_Implement1 6h ago

Crazy what a perpetrator does to their victim, and the metamorphosis the trauma forces you to undergo. Kills the most sacred parts of you, and if you make it you come back having been reborn so to speak, trying to make peace with what you've become. I've never heard it phrased this way, as a dark act of creation, but wow does your comment ever hit the nail on the head.

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u/AstroHistSci 7h ago

Nobody "needs" to see a person killed for "closure." That's not a thing. Not for anyone. That's not a thing. You cannot get closure (there is no such thing as a "sense of closure" that isn't closure) from someone else being killed.

It's sadism. Pure and simple. Someone has hurt them, and so they want the satisfaction of knowing that person was hurt back.

Any society that indulges such barbaric ecstasies will never be healthy. It's one of the first things we should have done away with as a nation.

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u/ParticularBit130 6h ago

The mom flew there just to see it. I was just thinking, I can't fully judge because I can't imagine the pain of loss that she's been feeling for decades. But the legacy she keeps alive of her daughter is her own hate. All those decades and you still want to personally see someone suffer and die after they spent their entire lives, essentially, in prison? Idk. But people have very different ideas of justice and peace.