Pike’s lawyers said she is back in same prison she’s lived in for last 30 years and will continue to receive medical care
Christa Pike has been discharged from the hospital after surviving Tennessee’s botched 30 September attempt to execute her by lethal injection and is back in prison, her lawyers said on Saturday.
Saturday’s update about Pike came 10 days after the death row prisoner was given two doses of pentobarbital, a lethal injection drug, in what proved to be a failed execution attempt. She was hospitalized after surviving the botched execution and was declared brain dead on Monday.
But in a shocking turnaround, on Thursday her lawyer said that she was “up and walking” – though she remained “somewhat foggy” and wasn’t able to use her arms very much.
Pike said that her arms were burning during the failed execution and asked if it was supposed to feel that way. Witnesses present in the chamber said that “nothing was normal” while officials have maintained that they followed every step of Tennessee’s approved execution protocol.
1-in-8 people sentenced to death are later exonerated. 4% of those executed were later proven innocent.
I cannot accept executing innocent people as moral, no matter how bad the guilty parties are.
I don’t think any particular crime should warrant the death penalty. But it should be considered for those with a clear pattern of serious violent criminal behaviour, where rehabilitation has been tried but unsuccessful. For example multiple assaults, rapes and/or murders over a certain period of time, with prison terms served in between the crimes, where there has been attempts at rehabilitation, but these have failed to correct the criminals violent behaviour.
ok so how many? how many years served to rehabilitate? Also. Seriously. Do american prisons even try to rehabilitate? You know. Therapy. Education. Etc. What should be are minimum moral attempts to rehabilitate the person starting from the first crime?
Those are questions I am not qualified to answer. We’d have to hire some criminologists, doctors, psychologists and other experts as well as lawyers to conduct in-depth research as to what is the best way forward. American prisons are a bad model, I am personally not American. I’d suggest prisons more closely resembling those in the Nordic nations, which focus on rehabilitation rather than vengeance and punishment.
That said, here in my Nordic country there was one case where a man was convicted of rape, and sent to prison with a minimum sentence as a first-timer. Once he came out of prison, he raped again. He was caught and sent back to prison. He served his sentence and upon release, he raped a third time, and was sent back to prison.
Clearly this person is beyond rehabilitation. It would be in the interest of public safety and the prisoners own conscience if he was made to stop committing these violent acts, as clearly he is unable to do that. In my country it also costs between $70,000 and $100,000 per year to house a prisoner. Paying this sum every year for the rest of the serial rapists life is an absolute tragedy when we are having trouble financing social security, education and healthcare. In this case I would consider implementing the death penalty, but that’s just my personal opinion.
I mean I think we could as moral beings at least say that while the experts may put it higher it would likely be at least three offenses and I would say no less than a decade should be put into rehabilitation if we are only talking very extreme offenses. if such a combination even got to be we are talking someone who is like 2/3rds through their life. It seems pointless to execute at that point than to just do life in prison.
The entire justice system is imperfect. I acknowledge that to a certain degree. Modern forensics has brought this much further than before. While I certainly don’t think everyone should be able to use the death penalty. I do not want to share the planet with people who commit atrocities against innocent. I entirely believe that some cases that are beyond probable should call for the death penalty. Let it be one of yours who get harmed, raped, unalived, tortured, or something horrible, I am not saying an average crime but some heinous. I bet you will change your mind. Depending on the case, inmates even kill child predators. We have so many molestors out on the streets just lookup a map of your local US area, its sickening. Repeat offenders at that. I don’t want these people sharing the same space as me. Period. Multiple convictions. Not one off cases.
A lot of modern forensics is quack science and influenced by TV copaganda.
70% of forensic evidence fails to be reproducible in blind tests, 80% of forensic labs lack a standardized review procedure, 75% of crime scenes are contaminated, 45% of police departments outsource their CSI, and even if you were to fix all that - forensic evidence is not a smoking gun, it is subject to interpretation - often by experts paid by the prosecutor for their desired outcome.
Edit - see for yourself- is this person guilty or not?
I sort of mentioned forensics as umbrella term. Modern video, cell tracking, overall quality of evidence is far greater than ever before. But I do see your graph as interesting and thanks for posting.
“The system is imperfect so there’s nothing we can do except accepting it 🤷”.
Get the fuck out of here. Most of the civilized world does not have death row and we can still deal with violent criminals.
The system being imperfect is a PERFECT reason to NOT have death row…