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Should Christa Pike be released from prison? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 20 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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[–] 3 points 14 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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