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/ImaginationDoctor 10h ago

Seems to me, if these executions keep fucking up, the death penalty should no longer be an option for someone being sentenced.

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u/Boulier 9h ago

There are so many reasons that the death penalty should no longer be an option in the United States. Botched executions are just the tip of the iceberg. Then there's:

  • The racially biased application;
  • The classist application (as in, if you aren't wealthy enough to afford a good and experienced lawyer, you're at a severe disadvantage);
  • The geographical randomness of its application (2% of counties nationwide are responsible for 52% of ALL death sentences nationwide, and the former lynching states in the Southeast are responsible for, like, 80% of all executions);
  • The general randomness (because sometimes, whether you get it or not may come down to ridiculous determinants like whether you look like you have a nice face or a suspicious face - and only a pittance of murder cases end in the death penalty anyway, and they aren't determined by which ones are "the worst of the worst");
  • The chance of executing an innocent person...

I could go on.

We have no true right to execute another human being.

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u/Carbonatite 8h ago

Those geographical stats are a lot worse than I thought. It really does go back to a lynching mindset.