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Christa Pike makes first public comments since failed execution: ‘There is pain in my mind and in my soul’ (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] -1 points 23 hours ago* (4 children)

I already said in this thread multiple times that the state shouldn't be able to murder people. We shouldn't be here. She should just be sitting in a cell learning about her own brain and getting psychological help. But here are we. And everyone calling for her immediate freedom forget she has received no help and brutally, violently murdered someone with 2 other people. If the world would be how I want it to be, they'd be left to their community's judgment. But modern people dont grow up in tightknit communities like we are supposed to. At least most of us dont anymore.

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  • [–] 1 point 22 hours ago (3 children)

    That's great and all, but the reality is that she was neither jailed for life or executed, she was tortured, and she deserves restitution because, despite her conviction, she still has constitutional rights.

    You keep trying to handwave her rights away with appeals to disgust. I don't give a shit about whatever emotional reaction details of the original crime brings you. If you don't respect the constitutional protection against torture, you're deeply in the wrong.

    Pike may have perpetrated a crime, but she is also a victim of state abuse. The former doesn't invalidate the latter.

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  • [–] 0 points 22 hours ago* (2 children)

    but the reality is that she was neither jailed for life or executed, she was tortured

    Never said she was, have been saying this entire time she was just tortured.

    You keep trying to handwave her rights away with appeals to disgust

    She already waived somebody else's rights completely away. That has consequences. Am I the only one who remembers this? Only one in this thread who fucken cares she ended someone else's existence over admitted jealousy? Go read the court docs, watch her interview. She said it herself. Yes, I am making appeals to disgust. What she did was disgusting, no matter her own dark past. That doesnt mean what the state did was right, that doesnt mean what she did was right. Its a shit fest.

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  • [–] 0 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    So you admit she was tortured, but don't think she deserves any amount of restitution for having her constitutional rights violated. There's only one way to read this: you don't care if her constitutional rights were violated, and are happy to use her crimes as justification for it.

    She already waived somebody else's rights completely away.

    This is the exact same argument the Trump admin has used to deny immigrants due process before deportation. You talk like a fucking fascist.

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  • [–] 1 point 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

    I already told you what I think should happen and you choose to ignore it to put words in my mouth so you can outlive your moral fantasy right now. If you aren't going to bother conversing and instead want to shoot accusations, I am not going to continue.

    Edit: and you keep fucking going on about constitutional rights, shut up, what did Christa Pike do to her victim? Take away every single right and choice. But you ignore that, in favor of the person who committed the act and ignoring reality that somebody is dead and that deserves consequences. But in this instance is super special and we should totally listen to the murderer and even set them free because they have a super sad upbringing. Thats the consensus in this thread and it is just asinine. She doesnt get a pass to kill because she had a bad life, just like the State doesnt get a pass to kill and torture just because she did.

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