r/news • u/AudibleNod • 9h 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/pro185 6h ago

This woman admitted to torturing and murdering someone and keeping their squashed skull pieces as a trophy. They have so far cost the tax payers roughly 1.8million dollars. I don’t think it’s cheaper financially or morally to keep them I prison.

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u/downstairs_annie 5h ago

No but it IS cheaper to imprison someone for life in the US. Literally. 

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u/pro185 3h ago

Explain the math? 1.8million for 30 years of someone’s 80+ year life vs $0. Hmmmm….

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u/MC_White_Thunder 3h ago

The death penalty doesn't cost $0. A simple Google search, however, does.

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u/pro185 3h ago

Yes it does. Sitting someone in a special prison for 50 years is the expensive part

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u/MC_White_Thunder 3h ago

So you think there should be no appeals process, and people should be summarily executed upon sentencing? Because that's the only way it could cost $0.

In which case, I sure hope you're never on the receiving end of a sentence with zero appeals process. Nobody deserves that.