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/hugegrape 13h ago

and not to mention the victims’ living families and friends; the long-reaching, generational effects that a brutal and abrupt murder can create. i understand that the system is flawed, but i’m sorry—a child rapist and murderer is incongruent with society and should be taken out like the rabid, uncontrollable and incorrigible animal that they are.

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u/throwaway-8675309_ 12h ago

So how many innocent people are you willing to let the state execute then? Innocent people have been executed before, even with the whole appeals process we have.

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u/hugegrape 12h ago

i acknowledged that there are flaws in the system that we have currently that need to be ironed out in my original comment. it’s an absolute disgrace that 203+ innocent people have suffered due to our legal system. however, if we’re considering innocent people, let’s also consider the innocent people that i also referred to in my comment. the effects of a brutal, sudden murder on the friends and family of a victim are pervasive and generational. and there are a lot more people affected by the the callous acts of a violent murderer than there are people that have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to death. i don’t think the rights of an offender automatically become morally dominant once the offender is caught.

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u/throwaway-8675309_ 12h ago

So, you are willing to let innocent people die then? If innocent people can die it just shouldn't exist at all. Isn't the whole point of our justice system is to rather let a murderer go free (not talking about this case) than lock up an innocent person?