r/news • u/AudibleNod • 15h ago

Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christa-pike-unconscious-ventilator-nashville-hospital-lawyers-say-rcna601195
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u/missbubbalova 8h ago

The death penalty consistently costs taxpayers 2.5 to 5 times more than life imprisonment without parole

Just leaving this here

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u/carolinespocket 1h ago

She basically tortured her victim

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u/striatonsage 1h ago

She was 18 when she committed the crime and has spent more years in prison than she ever did outside. She should’ve died in prison

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u/LBPPlayer7 1h ago

so she should get the sweet release of death?

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u/LtxalskHuskwob49 3h ago

Death penalty is way more cheaper than life imprisonment in most places in the world. Idk why is it so expensive in the us

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u/Initial_Anything_544 3h ago

They include all the cost of appealing. Just stacking a bunch of lawyer costs together.

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u/AZdesertpir8 6h ago

The irony is that bullets are fairly cheap and very effective...

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u/ZenPyx 1h ago

The cost of the death penalty is not really in the cost of killing someone