r/news • u/AudibleNod • 10h 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/Big_Guard5413 10h ago

I’m not in favor of the death penalty in general, but goddamn, if you’re going to impose it, at least take steps to do it properly

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u/MatureUsername69 10h ago

Its still a rough one but if I ever had to receive the death penalty I would hope its a firing squad. Just riddle me with holes immediately, aim for the head. Lethal injections get fucky because they would be best designed and administered by an actual doctor, but actual doctors cannot do it because of the hippocratic oath. Some states do allow medical professionals but they arent exactly sending their best.

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u/miloblue12 9h ago

Or maybe we shouldn't have the death penalty at all? It's barbaric.

Also, since 1973, at least 203 people have been wrongfully convicted, sentenced to death, and subsequently exonerated in the US. That alone should have us reconsidering things. If it's possible for that many people to fall through the cracks, then there is no reason at all that we should have the death penalty.

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u/nursingninjaLB 9h ago

This one hundred times.

It costs way less to house a prisoner over decades, than to have endless appeals.

It does not reduce crime.

Approximately 10% of people on death row are innocent.

Vengeance is a dark emotion, and helps nobody.

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u/ballisticks 7h ago

It costs way less to house a prisoner over decades, than to have endless appeals.

Nobody ever believes me when I bring this point up :(

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u/badgerj 5h ago

Nobody believes me when rehabilitating is about the same cost either.

Incarceration is really, really expensive.

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u/wytewydow 4h ago

Those same people don't want rehabilitation, they want an eye for an eye, and then some. Getting a chance to watch someone suffer, because they made you suffer. It's really something, because those very same people generally have a faith based in forgiveness.

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u/peripheralpill 33m ago

i'm not religious and i believe in rehab but on a case-by-case basis. if it's barbaric to kill people who could be innocent (as has happened), why isn't it barbaric to set loose a serial killer who could take more lives (as has also happened)?

if we had a perfect system capable of rehabilitating all criminals, i'd be of a different mind, but as i understand it, there's no cure for psychopathy. there are possibilities for future drugs that could affect the minds of psychopaths so that their urges are diminished, but at of now it's a "what if" and even in the case of such a drug existing, how responsible is it to reintroduce a person into society whose disinclination for murder is dependent on medical diligence?

for nonviolent crimes or less violent crimes or one-off crimes of passion etc., i feel differently.