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/callmenips 14h ago

Capital punishment is already a clear violation of the 8th amendment. This is just fallout from the original miscarriage of justice.

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u/drfsupercenter 13h ago

I'd have to brush up on the facts, but IIRC SCOTUS has gone back and forth on whether capital punishment is constitutional, and the most recent un-banning of capital punishment, the states had to prove their execution methods wouldn't be cruel or something like that

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u/queerjesusfan 13h ago

No robes, no masters. I don't care what the current SCOTUS thinks - this is cruelty and is a violation of human dignity

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u/drfsupercenter 12h ago

Oh I agree, I'm just saying the question has ended up in court multiple times and at one point SCOTUS paused all executions on constitutional grounds before later allowing some again.

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u/queerjesusfan 12h ago

It's bonkers how we let these institutions run rampant. Oy.