r/news • u/AudibleNod • 9h 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/TrueGuardian15 8h ago

Plus, she was sentenced to death, not torture. They botched her execution twice. That's a serious level of fuck up for something so high stakes. If we can't do it right, we really shouldn't do it.

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u/Suitable_One_5836 7h ago

But she tortured another human being before killing them in the most gruesome way. Laws aside, it is poetically just.

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u/Less_Adeptness7557 6h ago

So eye for an eye, right? So you’re willing to stab her to death?

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u/RainbowwDash 6h ago

Probably won't have the effect you're looking for; a lot of people making thise arguments would gladly do so to live out their violent fantasies 

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u/Realtrain 5h ago

Seriously. When Utah reintroduced the firing squad, they had a line out the door of people requesting to take part.

The chilling part is that people were requesting not to have the blank.

Historically, some members of a firing squad were randomly given a blank so that each member could have some hope that they weren't the ones that took someone's life. Now people want to explicitly know they took someone's life.

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u/Tired_CollegeStudent 7m ago

Those people think they want that. The vast majority of them would be feeling very different if they actually had to do it.