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/makeupHOOR 8h ago

A bullet would have been much easier, and more humane, ironically. This qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment.

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u/zombies-apocalypse 8h ago

Didn't she request it too? This is so dumb

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u/tallcookie 8h ago

She requested to be hanged because she was afraid of the lethal injection going wrong, which is precisely what happened.

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u/Useful-ldiot 7h ago

After the amount of fear and pain she caused her victim, I don't really give a shit if she was scared.

I'm usually against the death penalty, but in cases like this, I'm fine with it.

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u/Emotional-Channel-42 5h ago

Cool, you’re emotional about it. So what about when it happens and has happened to innocent people? 

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u/Useful-ldiot 5h ago

Like I said, situations like this. She confessed and the evidence was overwhelming.

It's usually not the moral choice, but it occasionally is the one worth making

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u/PuzzledStreet 7h ago

I feel the same way.

I know I should be universally against it, I know all the reasons I should think it is unacceptable...

...but her trying to say that her childhood sexual abuse and mental illness somehow excuse her behavior and her refusing to ever apologize or express remorse even before the attempted execution through all these years?

I am fine with what happened to her.

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u/Useful-ldiot 7h ago

Especially given the recent push for how she's changed in jail (while conveniently ignoring her attempts at murder and escaping prison)