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Should Christa Pike be released from prison? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 16 hours ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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So my thinking here is this: she was sentenced to death, she received her punishment (failed execution), sentence can be considered complete?

I dont know much about US/Tennessee law but it would seem that she is in uncharted territory - having survived execution - and is a bit of a headache for the legal system? Are there any other cases like this and what happened?

My thinking is very liberal/European (I dont support capital punishment anyway) but providing she is no longer a risk to society - just release her. If it can be proved she is a risk, transfer her to a low security prison?

FYI: Christa Pike

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[–] 4 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I read the Wikipedia article and I have a vague recolection of a thread here where the woman early years and life was described and this is a seriously abused individual.

Did she nonetheless took part in a heinous murder? Yes.

Is capital punishment a fitting sentence? No.

And I don't care whatever reasoning is put here; capital punishment is not a sentence to be delivered. Someone needs to become a killer to execute another and someone needs to deal with that notion to the end of their life.

If the woman is deemed dangerous to be set in society, commit her to an insane asylum. Give her a garden to tend, use her life and behaviour as a case study, learn something from it, cremate her corpse and spread her ashes after she dies of old age so no cult can sprout from her grave site.

And commit the entire case for the history books.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    Is capital punishment a fitting sentence? No.

    I'd argue its a rubbish sentence because there's no room for the perpetrator to reflect on their crimes and allow themselves to be rehabilitated.

    If death is the outcome then they might as well carry on being a terrible person until the executioner flips the switch.

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