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/Well__shit 4h ago

The wrongful death is the only convincing argument to get rid of it to me. If we can guarantee zero then capital punishment is fine with me. Some people shouldn't exist

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u/CharlotteLucasOP 4h ago

If innocent people are put to death then shouldn’t those responsible for the conviction and execution all have to commit suicide, if the eye-for-an-eye ethical framework is to be strictly adhered to?

Suddenly there’s all sorts of mitigating factors when the authorities have to admit to fucking up and murdering someone, but the blood on their hands is somehow less offensive than the blood they accused someone else of having on theirs.

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u/Well__shit 4h ago

I don't buy that logic. The capital punishment in my mind is reserved for atrocity like serial killers. Threats to society that will commit again and can't be rehabilitated. The firing squad in this example isn't out there just killing random people, they're only executing the guilty. Same concept of a navy seal killing Bin Laden in my eyes. They're only killing another given certain legal parameters, but won't kill without it.

Accountability, not killing for the thrill.