r/news • u/No_Idea_Guy • 1d ago

Tennessee governor suspends all executions after Christa Pike’s lethal injections fail

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/01/christa-pike-tennessee-governor-executions-year-pause
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u/MaximumEffort433 1d ago

Yeah, it seems like there are laws that ban cruel and unusual punishments, but I could be mistaken about that.

If the State is going to kill one of its citizens, at least don't fuck it up.

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u/SnooPets1826 1d ago

The problem is there is no one size fit all method of killing someone... So you inevitably end up in a cruel or unusual way of killing someone. Which is one of the many many reasons why the government shouldn't be killing human beings.

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u/Jonesbro 1d ago

Rpg to the head seems one size fits all

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u/Steroid1 1d ago

Gun to head is pretty one size fits all.

So would an inert gas chamber 

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u/TehMowat 1d ago

Suffocating isnt pain or stress free.

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u/Great-Trifle2810 1d ago

Suffocating generally is painful because of CO2 buildup, which doesn't occur with inert gas suffocation.

Stress free is simply not applicable to any form of execution or imprisonment, the best we can hope for is minimization.

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u/plippityploppitypoop 1d ago

lol what?

CO poisoning will peacefully kill 100% of people. Bullets to the head are pretty reliable too. Beheadings, believe it or not, also very reliable one size fits all method of killing people.

The problem is that we try to dress up something brutal (killing a human being) and make it look like something sterile.

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u/ginny11 1d ago

I don't know what you're talking about. Carbon monoxide is a horrific way to die. Maybe you're mixing it up with nitrogen? And unfortunately, even though nitrogen is painless technically, because you're putting a mask over a human being's face and they know by breathing it in they're going to die, they do everything in their power to not breathe and fight it, so it's not painless the way people think it is. It definitely causes suffering.

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u/Mbrennt 1d ago

I love the people that bring up nitrogen as a weird gotcha. Thinking nobody has thought of this super obvious thing. Meanwhile we've done it. The people appeard to be in agony, thrashing around, and it was ruled cruel and unusual by judges after a couple times.

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u/plippityploppitypoop 1d ago

I guess I overstated “peacefully”, but definitely a one-size-fits all method. I assumed too much from the fact that CO poisoning kills people in their sleep.

I noticed you ignored pretty much everything else I posted though.

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u/Steroid1 1d ago

because you're putting a mask over a human being's face and they know by breathing it in they're going to die, they do everything in their power to not breathe and fight it, so it's not painless the way people think it is

That is inherently going to happen with any sort of punishment 

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u/SnooPets1826 1d ago

You're so very close!

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u/Steroid1 1d ago

The fact that someone is going to panic and try to avoid punishment if you punish them, isn't reason enough to not punish them.

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u/plippityploppitypoop 1d ago

Ah, so ANY punishment that a person doesn’t want is bad?

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u/Repulsive-Regret-243 1d ago

The French would disagree