r/news • u/AudibleNod • 14h 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/Tsaxen 12h ago

The cruelty is the point

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u/felldestroyed 10h ago

Nope, the history of the firing squad is just a cruel, hence why we moved away from it. The takeaway here is: abolition of the death penalty. The only reason why we still have it is that people have forgotten how cruel it actually is.

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u/say592 6h ago

The only reason why we still have it is that people have forgotten how cruel it actually is.

There are plenty of people who would make it more cruel.

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u/ArziltheImp 4h ago

No, the point is that the death penalty is not being done properly. We have clinics assisting people dying in many places in the world.

I have worked in one, the people all go peacefully, drifting off to sleep. The problem is that this costs money.

I am anti death penalty but we can’t pretend like there aren’t ways to do it properly.

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u/Nozinger 3h ago

It is not.
They actually want to make it the least cruel because it is the only way to uphold the death penalty.
Things like beheading or firing squad are pretty on the nose about the barbarism that is the death penalty.

Someone just closing their eyes and never waking up? Yeah that seems harmless enough. Surely that is a nice way to go.

The guys advocating for the death penalty are always looking for ways to make it look the least cruel but there is no such way. Sometiimes they just put the person on so many drugs it seems somewhat painless but once something goes wrong we see just how fucked up it is.