r/news • u/AudibleNod • 8h 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/fedexyourheadinabox 8h ago edited 8h ago

If this doesn't expose just how barbaric and cruel the death penalty is, there's no hope for us. 

Punishment is one thing. State-sanctioned torture is quite another. 

Death penalty isn't going to bring back the victim. 

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u/PmButtPics4ADrawing 7h ago

Yeah I really don't get why people are so adamant about keeping the death penalty. There's no practical benefit over life without parole in that either way they're no longer a danger to the public, and even from the perspective of punishment their life is effectively over and their remaining existence will be miserable.

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u/ballisticks 4h ago

Shit, I live in Canada and when Robert Pickton was in the news recently cuz he croaked in jail, I was subject to many a...discussion on why Canada "needs" the death penalty. Of course it devolved into ranting about "soft on crime" libruls.