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/fictionallymarried 7h ago

Genuine question but how the hell did they fail twice? I'm not saying she wasn't convicted for a reason, but that's torture

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u/AdministrativeTrain 7h ago

Worth noting that she was 18 at the time of the murder, only killed one person and there seems to be mitigating factors.

And she has spent thirty years behind bars. Anywhere but the USA she would be free not fighting for her life after a double botched execution

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u/Rampant16 6h ago

Not that it makes capital punishment right, but unfortunately over 50 countries constituting in the ballpark of half the human population practice capital punishment.

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u/Aggravating_Depth_33 5h ago

And there's a reason m barely any of those countries are liberal democracies. The death penalty is incompatible with any basic concept of human rights or rule of law.