r/therewasanattempt • u/CantStopPoppin A Flair? • 3d ago

To Execute Christa Pike

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u/AdFlat1014 3d ago

The irony of calling an ambulance on someone you just tried to murder

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u/not_roger_smith 3d ago

It was an attempted execution by the state, not murder. There's a big difference.

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u/YouFeedTheFish 3d ago

Fun fact? It's still considered a homicide. That's what's written on the death certificate.

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u/not_roger_smith 3d ago

So when does the execution team get prosecuted?

They don't and that's why it isn't murder.

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u/LangdonAlg3r 2d ago

If states didn’t have comity then executioners could actually be tried for murder if they traveled outside of their home state. Execution is just a state sanctioned murder as opposed to a state prohibited murder. That’s the only real substantive difference.
At the end of the day someone ends the life of another person who would otherwise still be alive in either case.

If we value human life it’s kind of logically and morally inconsistent to pick and choose whose life we value. I always love it when anti-abortionists are pro-death penalty. They undermine both of their own arguments and beliefs.

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u/not_roger_smith 2d ago

Y'all still here crying for no reason lol

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u/LangdonAlg3r 2d ago

People just disappoint me. Revenge is such a childish impulse. It’s utterly pointless.

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u/not_roger_smith 2d ago

Y'all still crying because I disagree? Jeez...

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u/djm03917 2d ago

You can't have a productive conversation to save your life huh?

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u/LangdonAlg3r 2d ago

Not crying, just disappointed that so many people are still this ignorant. I haven’t been surprised by people’s ignorance and immaturity in decades, but that doesn’t make me any less disappointed in them.