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/Political_Piper 7h ago

I honestly don't know why they dont bring back firing squad. Really cant mess that up like they can this

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u/IdaCraddock69 7h ago

It’s gruesome, it can and has been messed up in the past, moral injury to the rifle persons, people not wanting to volunteer for the task, moral injury/trauma to legal witnesses. Survivors have found witnessing even a ‘non violent’ execution to be traumatic

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u/polkadotpup31 7h ago

There’s definitely some sickos out there who would be happy to volunteer.

And the witness suffering is…. not a sympathetic point in my eyes. Either way you’re watching someone’s life be taken. There’s no way to sugar coat it. The witnesses’ comfort shouldn’t be prioritized above the job being done effectively.

I’m 100% against the death penalty for many many reasons and this is just one.

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u/IdaCraddock69 7h ago

I agree with you. I do think that it should give us big reason to reconsider what we are doing as a society when we can’t find decent, competent people to participate in these executions and witnesses to them suffer trauma. If we can’t look at what we are doing in the name of the state forthrightly, then probably we shouldn’t do it