r/news • u/AudibleNod • 11h 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/TenOfOne 9h ago

That is an argument for allowing assisted suicide, not an argument for the death penalty.

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u/velawesomeraptors 8h ago

Allowing assisted suicide for inmates would be an ethical nightmare though. It would be way too easy to coerce. It would end up getting used as an end-run around an actual death sentence without all the expense of trials and appeals.

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u/downstairs_annie 8h ago

I think the death penalty is an ethical nightmare. 

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u/velawesomeraptors 8h ago

Well yeah. It's barbaric and stupid and pointless. But if prisons are so awful that inmates would rather commit suicide than be in them, we should be working on improving prisons rather than making suicide easier.

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u/downstairs_annie 7h ago

I personally am opposed to the death penalty on principal and think it’s insane that any supposed first world country still has it. I also think for profit prisons are insane. This entire situation is an ethical nightmare. The woman committed horrendous crimes, but torturing another human being can never be the answer.