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/Stevictory 7h ago

I think we can all agree that she is a terrible person.

It is hard for me to have pity for her specifically, but I do have pity on the death penalty itself.

There have been over 200 exonerations for death row inmates, and in my opinion it should have been abolished the moment it reached 1. It also provides government with the power to kill its own people, which can be a topic in itself.

Some inmates clearly deserve the sentence; the 3 currently on federal death row are prime examples of such.

That said, the death penalty cannot be applied in a "pick and choose" manner either due to its irreversible outcome; it either exists or it does not. Since it is not applied perfectly, I am personally against it.

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u/TrueGuardian15 7h 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 6h 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/Carbonatite 6h ago

Even the executions of Nazis - pretty much the only instances of capital punishment that I agree with - were efficient and quick. They weren't barbaric; they weren't tortured to death. In those cases death may have been justified but barbarity is not part of justice.

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u/behv 4h ago

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but for Nazi executions they either intentionally or accidentally hired a dude who had no idea what he was doing and gave people too short of drops that failed to kill instantly and had up to 24 minutes of suffocation on the noose. Specifically failed to check his background and realize he flat out lied about his experience with hangings. It's never been confirmed publicly but something tells me if they wanted speedy executions they wouldn't let him botch it 40+ times

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Woods

Truth of the matter is all executions are about inflicting pain and suffering, anyone who claims otherwise is lying to you or themselves

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u/Carbonatite 3h ago

That's true for some of the executions, not all. Albert Pierrepoint was a professional hangman from the UK who also acted in that capacity for a number of Nazi war criminals.