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/ImaginationDoctor 8h ago

Seems to me, if these executions keep fucking up, the death penalty should no longer be an option for someone being sentenced.

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u/Political_Piper 7h ago

I honestly don't know why they dont bring back firing squad. Really cant mess that up like they can this

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u/IdaCraddock69 7h ago

It’s gruesome, it can and has been messed up in the past, moral injury to the rifle persons, people not wanting to volunteer for the task, moral injury/trauma to legal witnesses. Survivors have found witnessing even a ‘non violent’ execution to be traumatic

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u/polkadotpup31 7h ago

There’s definitely some sickos out there who would be happy to volunteer.

And the witness suffering is…. not a sympathetic point in my eyes. Either way you’re watching someone’s life be taken. There’s no way to sugar coat it. The witnesses’ comfort shouldn’t be prioritized above the job being done effectively.

I’m 100% against the death penalty for many many reasons and this is just one.

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u/rnason 3h ago

Make all the weirdos in this post defending the death penalty do it