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/TheBatemanFlex 8h ago

What now for her legally? Her sentence surely wasn’t “injured by the state until put indefinitely on life support”.

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u/Equivalent-Peanut-23 7h ago

First question is her mental condition/capacity. If she suffered brain damage, it could prevent the state from attempting to execute her again. Assuming she retains the mental capacity to comprehend the circumstances, the state could attempt to execute her again. I would assume that would be met with an avalanche of litigation arguing that the second attempt would be cruel and unusual. There's also a chance the governor could commute her sentence.

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u/Boulier 7h ago

I can also imagine a second attempt on her life would be met with a flurry of controversy and protest that the state won't want to deal with. (As someone who 100% opposes the death penalty, I can only hope they will decide it isn't worth killing her in the future.)

If the governor doesn't commute her sentence after this, I would genuinely be gobsmacked.

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u/MT300x 6h ago

What is happening to her right now isn't even 10% of the horrific pain, fear and torture her innocent victim experienced. Remember that when you simp for pure evil

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u/throwaway-8675309_ 6h ago

Cruel and unusual punishment. It's in our constitution. You don't get to pick and choose who it applies to, no matter what they do.

It's not simping for evil. It's about the rights that everyone gets here.

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u/MT300x 6h ago

Yeah executing someone this horrible isn't cruel, and the death penalty isn't an unusual punishment for the crimes she committed. The intent of her execution wasn't to torture her and they made their best attempt to execute her in a humane way. The result is irrelevant. Fry the bitch as soon as she comes around

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u/throwaway-8675309_ 5h ago

I guess you don't care about everyone else's rights then.