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Should Christa Pike be released from prison? (thelemmy.club)
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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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[–] 5 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Somewhere a dystopian sci-fi describes a justice system where you can receive multiple life sentences and actually serve them all. Upon a natural death, you are revived and renewed to the age you were at sentencing to serve the next life sentence. Only after completing them all are you free to die and remain that way.

The rich and powerful use their sway to prolong the sentences of those that have wronged them. Died early from an aggressive cancer? Well upon renewal they bribed the system to cure you of that. Or they implant a disease that won't kill you sooner but makes your time even worse.

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  • [–] 2 points 13 hours ago

    Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man has always stuck with me.

    Without getting too spoilery, "demolition" is the punishment for heinous crimes. It is indeed a terribly serious punishment, but also leaves the perp alive and a benefit to the society while they are also punished for their crime at the same time. The how and why has given me lots to think about.

    Worth a read for anyone that hasn't and it's a neat adventure of a murderer trying to outwit the law in a society with espers.

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  • [–] 5 points 20 hours ago* (1 child)

    Somewhere a dystopian sci-fi describes a justice system where you can receive multiple life sentences and actually serve them all. Upon a natural death, you are revived and renewed to the age you were at sentencing to serve the next life sentence. Only after completing them all are you free to die and remain that way.

    That somewhere is a Black Mirror episode.

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  • [–] 3 points 18 hours ago

    I'm still cooking on it a bit. In the US, there is a concept of "judgement-proof" people in terms of civil litigation. If you have no assets or money, a civil suit can't really get anything out of you. In this dystopian universe there could be "life sentence-proof" people. You get a terminal diagnosis with only like a 1 year prognosis. What's to stop someone like that from going on a murder spree of retribution? If they survive the trial, they might only live a month of the sentence. 100 life sentences turns out to be under 9 years if those last a month on average. And there could be additional shenanigans with the rich trying to cure that ailment when a known terminal disease was present at sentencing.

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