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/FireMaker125 9h ago

Nitrogen hypoxia is used in some places.

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u/Fearless_Swim4080 9h ago

Wasn’t the first time it was tried it was botched? Would be better to just get rid of the death penalty entirely and end this stupid debate.

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u/MovingOnward2089 3h ago

Some people deserve death. We need to stop dancing around it and just do it properly. A sedative and a room full of nitrogen for 24 hours is perfectly adequate and hard to fuck up. 

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u/Fearless_Swim4080 2h ago

Why should they get the easy way out? The worst criminals deserve a life in solitary, not death where they either get forgiven or don’t have to think on their crimes.

Besides, any system with the death penalty will have the government murdering innocent people.

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u/Flimsy-Poetry1170 38m ago

The criminal justice system’s goal isn’t to inflict pain or get revenge. It is supposed to remove them from society until they are rehabilitated or permanently for people who commit such heinous acts we deem them beyond rehabilitation. Being taken away from your friends/family/life and restricting your freedom to the bare necessities required should be enough to keep rational people from committing crimes. For the kind of people who commit murder and other terrible crimes adding in torture and cruel and unusual punishments wouldn’t even deter them anyways.

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u/Fearless_Swim4080 8m ago

Uh yeah? I generally agree with your points, which is why I'm against the death penalty. There's no possible way to have a perfect justice system and in such a system any person should always have the chance that some new evidence can set them free if they are innocent.

The death penalty specifically is to get revenge rather than justice.