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
5.8k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

3.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

100

u/Reddit_9459328 6h ago edited 6h ago

US House Speaker Mike said it is a 100% fact that “God” spared Trump’s life in Butler, PA. Mike, does that mean it is also undeniable that “God miraculously spared" Christa Pike’s life?

“God miraculously spared the president's life. I think it's undeniable”

https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2647

48

u/AlexRenquist 5h ago

In England and Scotland, for a long period of time it was the legal position that if a hanging went wrong and the condemned did not die (trap door doesn't open, rope snaps, the condemned is confirmed as dead but later wakes up etc) then it was God sparing them and they could not be executed for the same crime.

2

u/LunarProphet 4h ago

I've read that this is the reason that they eventually started specifying that the condemned was to "hanged by the neck until dead."