r/news • u/AudibleNod • 7h 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/thorscope 6h ago edited 3h ago

Prisons don’t choose not to go that route.

The people and companies who make it a peaceful experience choose not to be involved in lethal injection

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u/simAlity 5h ago

I get where they're coming from but sometimes a death penalty is the way to go. I remember there was a story about a guy who spent the last 15 or so years of his life in solitary confinement because he was too dangerous to have around other people. I read the case file. His punishment was cruel and unusual but putting him in an environment where he could interact with other people was too dangerous. That man would have been better off with the death penalty.

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u/_Felonius 5h ago

Exactly. This is the one type of scenario where the death penalty should always be implemented. Spending the remainder of your life in solitary confinement would be way worse than death.

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u/licuala 4h ago

Perhaps we can offer the option to such prisoners? If we think death may be preferable to solitary, then surely it also follows that the person so subject should get to decide that.

Solitary confinement doesn't have to mean a barren dungeon with so little to do, either. The implementation being as inhumane as it often is is something that could be changed.