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Should Christa Pike be released from prison? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 17 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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[–] 5 points 13 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 12 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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