My thoughts on the death penalty in America and how it doesn't work on many levels, following two botched legal injections of Christa Pike, who would be the first woman in 200 years of the Tennessee to be executed. (As of this video the news only was that she survived due to degraded drugs.) Live 9/1/2026.

0:00 – Questions around Christa Pike traumatizing capital punishment | failure of death penalty
2:38 – Personal earlier view of killing & death penalty
4:19 – American death penalty vs Canada's MAID program
6:47 – Death penalty who doesn't deter crime | criminals think about how to avoid higher punishments
12:02 – Death penalty unfairly handed out due to states rights | criminals avoid states with higher punishments | justice is not equally handed out
15:27 – Capital punishment vs leaving jail early
17:16 – Death penalty as a form of revenge | unfulfilled revenge due to humane capital punishment | rising up above revenge
23:09 – Death penalty benefits someone by taking them out of trauma, leaving the victims to suffer
27:36 – Failure of death penalty | over-simplicity of being against killing | closing thoughts

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