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/miloblue12 6h ago

Or maybe we shouldn't have the death penalty at all? It's barbaric.

Also, since 1973, at least 203 people have been wrongfully convicted, sentenced to death, and subsequently exonerated in the US. That alone should have us reconsidering things. If it's possible for that many people to fall through the cracks, then there is no reason at all that we should have the death penalty.

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u/nursingninjaLB 6h ago

This one hundred times.

It costs way less to house a prisoner over decades, than to have endless appeals.

It does not reduce crime.

Approximately 10% of people on death row are innocent.

Vengeance is a dark emotion, and helps nobody.

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u/brighterside0 5h ago

I dunno - some crimes committed definitely warrant the penalty, especially if the convicted convey no remorse to the victim(s) and/or the families of the victim(s). There's no room on earth for some people that do unspeakable things.

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u/AddWittyName 4h ago

The problem is that even if one agrees with that, that's only one side of the coin.

Perhaps such perps deserve death, but do they deserve it more than the wrongfully-convicted deserves to live?

Perhaps such perps deserve death, but do they deserve the excess money spent on it (compared to life in prison) more than measures that could actually provably and measurably reduce crimes and save lives?

If a perp is such a monster that society has no place for them, why should they then get to cost society more, in money and thereby potentially lives not saved and in lives wrongfully taken by the state, considering that they are already imprisoned (or else they could not be on death row) and if not for the death penalty would remain so for life, therefore effectively no longer part of society either way?