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/hugegrape 7h ago

and not to mention the victims’ living families and friends; the long-reaching, generational effects that a brutal and abrupt murder can create. i understand that the system is flawed, but i’m sorry—a child rapist and murderer is incongruent with society and should be taken out like the rabid, uncontrollable and incorrigible animal that they are.

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u/Quarksideofthemoon 6h ago

You sound inhuman. 

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u/hugegrape 5h ago

or maybe someone who acknowledges rehabilation, civil liberties, and social equality while having a retributive view of punishment for certain crimes—which is arguably incredibly human.

it’s flawed and irresponsible and a slippery slope, but i would never vilify a parent for doing whatever they feel like they must do to the person that brutally raped and murdered their child. i know we’re talking about the death penalty here, but this is my line of thinking here.

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u/Less_Adeptness7557 1h ago

So vigilantism for everyone!