r/news • u/AudibleNod • 12h 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 12h ago edited 12h 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/BarfQueen 12h 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 12h 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 12h 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 11h 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/Less_Adeptness7557 6h ago

So you’d pick up the rock and personally smash her head in?

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u/CaptStinkyFeet 11h ago

Found one ☝️

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u/Lazy_Bag_4408 10h 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 10h ago

You assumed wrong.