What do you think about Christa Pike’s botched execution and Tennessee’s halt?

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Governor halts all executions this year... Second botched one in Tennessee... Any thoughts on any of this and her case? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

OlderAndWiser · Answer

She received the death penalty and the anti-death penalty crowed protested. The day came, and they protested. The state tried and failed, she is still alive, and the protesters still protest.

Obviously, something is wrong with the system in Tennessee. I wonder if someone tampered with their drugs to reduce the effectiveness, thus creating a scenario like this that the protesters can use to argue for abolishing the death penalty.

lightbulb27 · Answer

It's mainly not my business other than the cost of holding them and if the family was made whole. It's that of the family whom was traumatized and the state official to decide.

If my loved one was killed by a person in that manner, I'd have to dig really deep to forgive and want them to live. I think that call should be mine and I get to shoot them.

The system to me is cruel and unusual as it is, tying someone down, some official sworn to care for people attempts to kill them. This may be after they are in essence a different person.

I think more about resolution than justice. What happened, why, and what lead to that? It guides my thinking, and I'd rather not dig into it further. Has that person been resolved so their live can be of value. What if she could donate some body parts and save others, save others in prison? That may be healing to the traumatized family.

If the person is a waste, like helter skelter guy, should have been shot long time ago other than time to study him.

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

Pike deserves to die for her crimes. She tortured and killed an innocent woman. So i don’t care if her execution is “cruel”. Mercy for the wicked is cruelty for their victims.
“Botched execution” rings like “attempted suicide”.
Human beings are actually unbelievably fragile. Tens of thousands of people who aren’t trying to die get killed accidentally every single year. Thousands of them are actually going to great lengths to NOT die. Most of them supposedly have the full support of their coworkers and company “safety” policies, not to mention safety organizations like OSHA and union officials. They die anyway, while trying very hard not to. We ignore it because it’s mostly men and we accept that loss of life as the cost of doing business.
So how is it possible to “fail” at killing yourself or someone else? You don’t really want to. That’s how. I assure you that if you’re truly committed to taking a life, it is remarkably easy to kill someone.
Most people just aren’t that committed. How, exactly, do you advertise for a psychopath who won’t make the workplace awkward? Ell oh ell!

AviatorTom · Answer

We have become too tame in executing people, to make sure it's not cruel and unusual punishment. Before they inject the drugs, they actually swab the area with alcohol.

If we, as a society, are going to have the death penalty, and carry out executions, we need to make sure the execution actually happens.

We, as a society, have two choices.

1. Make sure an execution is carried out. The olde English and French knew how to execute people... beheadings, with an axe, a sword or the guillotine. The Nazis carried out executions by shooting people. And firing squad executions are legal in several U. S. states — including Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah — and the U. S. Department of Justice formally authorized it as a federal execution method in 2026.

2. Don't execute people. If we, as a society, can't make sure an execution is actually carried out, then maybe we shouldn't be executing people.

lilBigPotato · Answer

I'm against death penalty and this is just one other reason against it.

Anonymous · Answer

Try a different way. I don’t see why her sentence should be changed at all.

Shiprex · Answer

She should be released if she recovers. The murderous state has zero say on what they do and the political criminals who support dumbass state sponsored murder should be changing the and the commercial prison industry to one closer to what real countries do where rehabilitation is the purpose.

Staximus · Answer

They should have just gave her another shot

exitseven · Answer

Paris, this is a prime example of government incompetence. They find the most complicsted and expensive way to do something and everyone is surprised when things go wrong.

Pterodon · Answer

Fuck these humane executions. They weren’t humane when they killed. Their victim didn’t get a last meal or time to prepare to see Jesus like she did. I say just take em out back and shoot them by firing squad. You can’t fuck that up

Agape93 · Answer

They should pay me to do it.

shish_kebab · Answer

Throw her out of an airplane and see if that works.

Likes2drive · Answer

Not exactly for the death penalty, but I wonder if this excludes her since they failed to do it, I heard she’s been unconscious the whole time, now

FrodoSkywalker007 · Answer

They could always treat her the same way she did her victim 🤷‍♂️

Anonymous · Answer

I’m curious if they intentionally tried to botch her execution. To be honest I rather be dead than spend the rest of my life as a vegetable.

worldscolide · Answer

I got a 50 caliber desert eagle that would do a far better job than fucking lethal injection.

Anonymous · Answer

Last I heard, she's on a "ventilator", so all they need to do is add "Remdesivir" and she's a total GONNER

Anonymous · Answer

Fentanyl should be the used as part of the leathal cocktail. It wouldn't take much.

rgb008 · Answer

She deserves it and everything coming

TonyMetal___1986 · Answer

Who's this demon?

Paige2006 · Answer

Someone messed up

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