Christa Pike -where does she stand legally?

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Just this really. Christ a is obviously being giving life saving treatment at hospital but where does she now stand legally. I suppose she probably has irreversible brain damage so will this not allow a second execution to take place? Is this a cruel and unusual punishment?

[Note from MNHQ - edited your title, OP]

Medical staff try to save lives. They don't need another reason. Who in their right mind would want to kill someone?

They need to stop using the lethal injection. Use the guillotine or firing squad.

Absolutely nails it.

Guillotine! 😮

Or just... stop doing it at all and stick to life imprisonment.

Not necessarily. I survived a murder attempt and am vehemently opposed to the death penalty.

This is a woman who was raped and abused from the age of 2. I have empathy for her.

The whole situation is dreadful, what a country!

Somebody who lured their victim with a promise of becoming friends (after some sort of personal conflict) to a secluded location, tortured her, murdered her and kept a piece of her skull as a trophy.

someone who was convicted a second time - this time of attempted first degree murder. Where she attempted to strangle a fellow inmate with a shoe lace…

Is state sanctioned murder abhorrent? Yes.

should convicted murderers be given the chance to “achieve” this kind of notoriety due the countless appeals, execution stays etc commonly associated with the death sentence in the US? Absolutely not imo.

but my main sympathy still lies with the young woman who was tortured and had her skull smashed to pieces. And her family. Not with the perpetrators.

Yes. I saw that in another article.

I clicked on the title thinking it was a rather fun variation of the exclamation'Christ alive'

It says in the guardian article she was orally raped by her grandmothers boyfriend.

What a miserable life of endless suffering.

I watched a documentary about this and my understanding is that its not like going for general anaesthetic. The patient has to take the drugs themselves. They consent formally on camera and then are handed the drug in a vial/cup to swallow. They have to do it this way otherwise it would be considered murder.

For execution the individual is given drugs without their consent and against their wishes (hence the need to strap them down).

No, because those drugs are in date so the strength is known as they prescribed and given under medical care.

It wasn't just her who murder the girl. She had two accomplices, one who did as much as her but was 17yrs so got life without parole. She was only a bit older and got the death penalty. The third person testified against the other two and was set free. Doesn't feel consistent.

Anyone would, but the point is that people's automatic revenge mechanisms can't dictate the law. When the state kills in cold blood, it brings itself down below the level of the murderer. This woman has served much of her punishment by spending over 30 years in prison, and now the state has maimed her. That is way more than sufficient punishment.

Timothy Evans and Derek Bentley.
Two reasons the death penalty should never come back to the UK.

Or perhaps those in favour of the death penalty here just regard those two as 'collateral damage'? I'm sure what their families thought wasn't important...

What a fuck up. The death penalty is barbaric. The US is not a civilised country.

Exactly...

My sympathy is with the family of her victim.

It most definitely is not a civilised country. It is ironic how the Americans call out other countries for having the death penalty yet they clearly also do.

The trouble is, when you put someone on Death Row, they have nothing to lose, and that's why further offences happen. Another consequence of a totally fucked-up system.

Why? Her partner in crime is still inside denied release she murdered an innocent woman over a boy fgs and killed or at least tried to kill several others while in prison she doesn't get to go free because the state failed to kill her first time

Why is that funny?

You need to do more research if you can't find anything explaining what happened to her aged 2.

Wiki isn't a reliable source of information.