30 years on death row

[Toastytina]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckr50yyddljlo

She us scheduled to be executed tomorrow, hideous crime no doubt. But after 30.years? I dont agree with it.

People always cite Axel Rudakubana. He was under 18 at the time of his crimes, and so he wouldn't get the death penalty even if we had it. He got 52 years, in many countries as an under 18, he would have received much less.

that's more of a life than her victim got.

I am very much against the death penalty to be honest and also how do the people giving her the injection knowing they are ending her life feel about it? I assume you have to volunteer to murder someone by lethal injection? All makes me feel sick.

I know Christa Pike is a murderer who took an innocent young woman's life but to make her spend 30 years in prison, knowing at any time she could be taken away and executed, to live every day knowing that you are going to be strapped to a gurney and be murdered in front of a room full of witnesses is horrific and isn't justice, in my eyes, it makes the state just as bad as she is

That’s an issue interesting take. So, you believe she is guilty, but should not be punished with a death sentence?

I think that is one of the stupidest things I have ever read.

All DNA proves is that someone left some DNA behand.

As the tech gets more and more advanced that might actually blur some lines, as to how DNA got to where it was.

Then there are cases when there is no DNA evidence or none that indicates any crime has taken place.

Oh goody two shoes you.
She brutally murdered someone. She’s been here 30 years too long. if it was your child? You would still say the same? Thought not

Oh ya ya ya. You would be sitting here advocate for your child’s murderer?

This might be a nasty surprise to you but some of us believe in the absolute sanctity of life.

Bad luck.

I mean you can't win them all.

I don’t know why you’d assume every parent would be pro the death penalty in these circumstances. There are plenty who aren’t, for a variety of reasons. There’s a whole organisation of murder victims’ families that tries to challenge that assumption.

The parents of an 8 year old killed in the Boston marathon bombing:
“We know that the government has its reasons for seeking the death penalty, but the continued pursuit of that punishment could bring years of appeals and prolong reliving the most painful day of our lives. We hope our two remaining children do not have to grow up with the lingering, painful reminder of what the defendant took from them, which years of appeals would undoubtedly bring.”

Would you patronise them as “goody two shoes”.

Not in favour of the DP at all. Life in prison is good enough punishment for anyone.

Either electric chair or lethal injection is barbaric (and so was her crime), there must be a more humane way of sending her off, like the euthanasia drugs or what they do in Dignitas. One witness would be enough, not a spectacle. The method is just so wrong to me.

But, this is redneck Tennessee, and as soon as she is dispatched, the gloaters will be back to church and reading their Bible I suspect. Good Christians that they are there.

Hard agree. DP is just wrong. And particularly given the length of time she has served in this case, there’s no way at 50, she’s the same person she was who committed a (yes, heinous) crime at 18. And btw plenty of bereaved people who have lost someone to murder also don’t support the DP. Not that that should influence the decision.

She showed no clemency towards her victim.

She only had 2.5 hrs left. Just hope its not prolonged and aa quick and painfree as possible.

I can’t get over the fact that she was still in nappies the first time she was raped.
Colleen was the person she took her rage out on, from cradle to the grave her life has been horrendous and she was so scared of losing her boyfriend in her absolute shit show of a life she brutally murdered Colleen to ensure she had at least one consistent person in it.
Of course Colleen should never have died, but taking the life of someone so deeply mentally unwell is just as barbaric.

They want them to suffer.

There are only a few countries (the UK being one) that have put time and effort into ensuring executions are efficient, humane and quick.

In the UKs case it was started in the 1800s, and formalised in a Royal Commission where the panel toured the world witnessing various executions, and concluded that long drop hanging was the method that ticked all boxes.

Meanwhile the US has repeatedly avoided the same due to a lack of interest in expediting executions.

If I was pressed to name the other country that seemed to care, it would be revolutionary France. Which really beat Britain to it.

Like this guy?

https://edition.cnn.com
/2025/05/13/uk/uk-peter-sullivan-conviction-overturned-intl-hnk

nah, she isn’t and she tried to kill someone else while she was in jail!

Halted indefinitely

Looks like it’s been halted for the Appeals Court to consider the arguments.

Still waiting for compensation.

If they are lucky he will die before they have to pay out.

That did not work for Andrew Malkinson. Educate yourself.

To be fair, when Priti Patel was supporting the death penalty on QT a few years back, her response to Ian Hislops point about miscarriages of justice was

"Because DNA"

so if she thinks it, you can't be surprised it oozes down.

I'm glad to see your views because when I expressed the same view on a different discussion I was told I couldn't have both viewpoints (ie wanting someone like Axel R or Wayne Couzens dead while realising that a civilised country does not do it). It's always good to see that some people on MN can grasp nuance!