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
No, she still tortured and killed a teenage girl.
I think they should commute her sentence to life, though.
She didn’t just take a life, she deliberately and cruelly took a life; it was planned and she wanted to make it hurt. This isn’t someone you want to let back on the streets.
The question is: would YOU take her in and let her stay with YOUR kids? I think most people would not.
america is plagued by vengeance, this is how these situations happen here in the first place
The question is: would YOU take her in and let her stay with YOUR kids?
That is decidedly not the question actually.
While being a stupid kid herself. She is not the same person anymore and I believe she deserves to be set free
I kinda think of this as what would the sentence have looked like somewhere else?
I’m guessing something like life with 25 years non-parole. So after 30 years in prison so far, she should probably be allowed parole if she meets the normal requirements.
Ctx for people who haven’t read the article: she was 18 when she tortured and killed a 19yo girl with her boyfriend. They were legally adults (in most jurisdictions) and she was a similar age to the victim. Saying she “killed and tortured a teenager” is intentionally loaded language.
I choose to believe that rehabilitation is possible for every person, no matter the original circumstances. Ideally, everyone should be given the chance to live as freely as possible. Obviously, there has to be a process, there has to be some accountability and safety; but I don’t think precluding that as an option categorically at the moment of sentencing is right or just.
I can’t speak to her state of mind or risk to society specifically, but that’s the position I hold in general.
However, with what I know of the American “justice” system and how capitalist societies are structured and how they treat people with criminal records: I doubt that is the case for many long-term inmates… The situation is regrettable, but the existing ‘correctional’ institutions in America appear to create more problems than they solve. But ideally, yes; if she had been rehabiliated, she should be slowly reintroduced into society.
However however, with all that said… The argument that “she was sentenced to be executed and the execution was botched, therefore she should be let go” is a bad argument.
she still tortured and killed a teenage girl
Yes, and she’s served her time.
She didn’t just take a life, she deliberately and cruelly took a life; it was planned and she wanted to make it hurt.
But you can’t automatically assume that she’s beyond rehabilitation.
This isn’t someone you want to let back on the streets.
Is that your knee-jerk opinion or that of trained professionals?
would YOU take her in and let her stay with YOUR kids?
Of course not. Do you let random strangers into your home and around your kids?
I think most people would not.
Well you’d hope so. But as long as it could be proven she didn’t pose a risk to the general public I’d be fine with her being released.
Does the teenage girl she killed get to come back to life? Or is she still dead?
So you wouldn’t let her stay with you, but you’d release her into a community with other people you don’t have to answer to and aren’t responsible for.
I’m not sure anyone is or isn’t beyond rehabilitation. I’d leave that to professionals.
I wouldn’t trust her around my people, so I wouldn’t impose her upon yours (or someone else’s). That’s all. I’m professional nothing other than Internet commentator, more or less same as I assume you are.
Dude. By all means debate and have your own hot takes, but at least read and digest what other people are saying.
Maybe even if Yes she should at least be on house arrest just to protect other People
I don’t think you would have that opinion if you read the linked Wikipedia article. What she did was beyond horrific. She should remain separated from society for life for what she did to that girl.
when i said maybe i meant it in a very small number i dont mean 50/50 more like 97% she should stay in prison forever or be executed
