It’s hard to have sympathy for Pike, given what she’s done. But at the same time, the state is torturing her at this point, which I’m pretty sure is in violation of her constitutional rights. If she is to be sentenced to death for her crimes, then just put a fucking bullet in her and end her misery already, which is what should have been done in the first place. The lethal injection has always been a cruel, wasteful, and performative procedure and should have been abolished ages ago. It exists not for the safety of the executed, but to protect the feelings of those who have to witness the execution. Fuck that; if you believe that you have the right to end somebody’s life as a punishment for their crimes, then you should have to witness the grim reality of the sentencing you give out. There is so much margin for error with the lethal injection process that an outcome like this was bound to happen eventually - in fact, this isn’t even the first time somebody’s survived a botched injection like this.
I don’t really know where I’m going with all this. This story just has me riled up in a variety of ways lately.
The answer is to abolish the death penalty, not to expedite the process with bullets. What the hell is wrong with you?
I’m with you, but that is a slow and arduous process that has been fought for years now. In the meantime, until we as a society can wean off of killing our prisoners, we can at least be humane in the way we go about it. The lethal injection is by no means humane.
This is America. The cruelty is the point. It would be easier to get people to go for drawing and quartering people at this point. I mean she requested to be hanged and shot I think.
Death penalty should exist, maybe this method is wrong. I believe no one here would be happy if Trump would get less than death penalty if he would ever be found guilty.
Eh. I don’t really want to pay for people who torture others to death to hang around in a cage for a few more decades. Just needs to be done instantly and without room for error. And obviously only in completely open and shut cases where there is zero doubt the person committed the crime.
If cost is your concern, it’s cheaper to imprison someone than to pay for the courts and lawyers for the significantly longer legal process to execute someone, not to mention the execution itself.
Cost isn’t the real concern, vengeance is.
That’s not an argument against the death penalty in concept though - it could just as easily be taken as an argument for cheaper executions.
So expedite the process and eliminate the appeals process and make the whole thing an even bigger human rights atrocity?
The solution is to not kill people. This isn’t a hard concept for mentally healthy people without bloodlust.
You’re really good at putting words in people’s mouths. Maybe try not telling other people what they think.
You said “cheaper executions”. That only means one thing: Expediting the timeline and getting rid of appeals.
I understand that you didn’t say that explicitly, but I didn’t put words in your mouth. You called for expediting the timeline and getting rid of appeals by saying “cheaper executions”, because that’s how you cut costs on executions.
Cheaper executions = more innocent people being murdered by the state.
If cost is your concern, it’s cheaper to imprison someone than to pay for the courts
I’m aware. Which is why I also believe the process needs to be changed. If the person tortured someone to death and the evidence proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt, then the execution should be swift and sure. No appeals. No waiting years on death row. That’ll bring the cost down.
There’s no valid reason why a swift execution following a trial and verdict should cost more than feeding, clothing, and housing someone for decades.
That’s a real big if. I don’t trust states like Texas or Mississippi with that power.
It’s especially bound to happen because it’s basically a medical procedure which is incompatible with being a medical professional. A medical professional would lose their license for performing this procedure, so the only way to do it is by using someone unqualified.
A lot of pro torture ghouls in the comments.
They’re called Americans and it’s why the American penal system is about punishment rather than rehabilitation.
Oh and don’t forget the for profit motive of the American penal system too. How else will they maintain slavery and turn locking humans in cages into a profitable business.
Congratulations Tennessee, you made something worse than death. I hope you’re happy.
I think “worse than death” is their motto on the license plates in Tennessee.
In comments released by her legal team on Friday, the prisoner said that there had not been a moment since she was injected with a massive dose of the sedative pentobarbital that she had not been in pain. “My body hurts. My arms hurt. My hands hurt. My throat hurts. I still struggle to speak. And the pain isn’t just physical. There is pain in my mind and in my soul,” she said.
More in article.
Celebrating torture makes you worthy of receiving it. Bloody animals, challenge yourself and be better humans.
however a state should never be the one to dish it out. no state should.
So, Pike deserves torture, and it is good that she got it, but we should just resign ourselves to the fact that her torture was necessary and not celebrate it ourselves, only make sure it is carried out.
That’s a fine line, but I can appreciate the difference. What if her witnessing the public’s celebration is part of the torture she needs? Should we sacrifice our own morality to do so?
Edit: y’all are wild. Pike celebrated torture, but doesn’t deserve torture, but the people who celebrate Pike’s torture deserve torture? That’s fucked up. Y’all backwards
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Why?
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You have a weird view of things, calling that post obviously hyperbolic rhetoric, then saying I seem offended.
Are you from a weak and quiet culture?
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Monsters should be treated like monsters’ full stop!! No mercy for the wicked!! Evil should be treated with evil. They don’t deserve anything better!!
Allowing government to torture or execute people is always a bad idea. Always.
And it’ll always lead to abuse. 100% of the time.
The 8th amendment has never once been applied correctly to any law.
OH NO!
Anyway,
So you’re perfectly cool with Trump’s America normalizing the torture of convicted criminals?
There are very good reasons to be against the death penalty and torture in the abstract, but that doesn’t mean we have to be sympathetic to this particular monster’s suffering.
If suffering is a part of what you want from the justice system, you and I are enemies.
It isn’t part of what I want from the justice system. It’s a bad thing that she suffered, but I also don’t personally care that she suffered, because of the monstrosity of what she did.
I do note how willingly you declare yourself enemies with people though.
I’m not asking you to support Pike. I’m asking you to condemn torture and demand accountability from the government.
It’s important to know who your enemies are. Not caring about government -inflicted suffering is worth noting. I would never trust someone like you IRL.
Sentence served. Let her Go Home.
Yes, let’s let the unhinged person who carves pentagrams into people’s flesh before caving their skulls in go home.
Look at the big picture,by this point she has had more done to her than she has done to others.
Im not saying let her start a Babysitter’s Club, but at least let her swap jails with Ghislaine Maxwell.
if instead of trial and due process she was killed by a mob? would it have been more fair, just, and humane?
I’m not using that hypothetical to defend mob justice, but instead to show how much the justice system has to fuck up to be less humane than mob justice
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Careful not to become a monster yourself with that short sided understanding of events. Please try to take in more than the hour or day leading up to the event we are talking about. Also she was a damn child when this happened , nevermind adults can get broken and do these things. Point being, we can protect the rest of society from christa Pike while also learning and preventing this kind of thing. The bigger picture would involve many professionals over a lifetime and no simple answers but we all learn and grown better for it, or we just chop heads and pretend to feel better and safer.
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I bet there was a hell of a lot of pain in the mind and soul of the poor girl she murdered too, so shrug.
And that justifies torture surely?
There are very good reasons to be against the death penalty and torture in the abstract, but that doesn’t mean we have to be sympathetic to this particular monster’s suffering.
Nah. We just need to stop doing lethal injections and use a gun or a guillotine or however many other guaranteed instant death methods humans have come up with. Lethal injection is silly. It’s just for the people that show up to watch.
What value is there in keeping people who torture others to death in cages for decades before they die naturally while we foot the bill?
For one why should the state have the power over life and death especially when mistakes are made? For another you know the death penalty cases cost more due to challenges and stuff like that, so even though “cost” shouldn’t matter even if it did your case isn’t supported.
For one why should the state have the power over life and death especially when mistakes are made?
Then who decides? Seems like you’re saying the alternative is for the state to decide to keep them locked in a cage for decades before they wither and die while we pay for it.
Note that I said I only support it when the evidence undeniably proves they committed the crime.
For another you know the death penalty cases cost more due to challenges and stuff like that,
Then maybe we should change the process. Again, I said I only support it if the evidence is immutable. So why allow any delays in a situation like that? Should be quick and inexpensive beyond the initial trial.
Make it easier for the state to execute people with large amounts of wrongful convictions everywhere. The evidence is never “immutable”.
I wonder what her victim, whom she tortured, carved a pentagram into her chest, then crushed her skull thinks about all this.
Why don’t we just use a guillotine? Properly sharpened there’s pretty little room for error. Seems like we just do the gas thing to make it easier on the people that show up to watch.
In open and shut cases where it’s beyond doubt that the suspect committed a crime like this, I fully support the death penalty. No reason to keep them around, paying for them for decades.
Fuck this thread OMG
I’m new here but It’s nice to just ban users that are clearly bigoted. I have lost all need to sway anyone ready to fight over basic human rights. in fact human rights are not included in their vocab. I know this effort might be in vain but maybe I’ll see less hate and troll bait.
lotta morons in this thread posting vile shit.
