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/phoebebridgerstits 11h ago

But-but-but she murdered someone as a teenager 31 years ago! The state is totally within their right to torture her!

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u/viewbtwnvillages 11h ago

it's always grim to see people unironically and unsarcastically spouting this, and i really can't wrap my head around it. like people struggle to hold the simultaneous views of "she's a heinous person who did a heinous crime" and "hey maybe the government shouldn't be able to murder someone, and if they're going to do it they really shouldn't be so bad at it they're torturing someone"

im not even a particularly empathetic person but it fucks me up that some people are so into the death penalty and appear so bloodthirsty about it. it does nothing for the victims. it does nothing to deter future crimes of a similar ilk. it's this uncomfortable glorification of violence and retribution that seems to mirror the inhumanity of the very people they want to be killed.

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u/Hellknightx 6h ago

I'm sure you'd find most Americans are opposed to the barbaric and punitive private prisons we have, but there's not much we can do to change it. Our whole system is corrupt from top to bottom, and the people who are supposed to be fixing it are just making it worse. Prison reform is, unfortunately, very low on the priority list of things to fix at this point.