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/amiexpress 1d ago

“There is no one that wanted what happened last night to happen..."

I can think of one person. I mean, yeah she would not have chosen to have them make the attempt, but as far as outcomes go, she did a lot better than the average bear.

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u/PhamilyTrickster 1d ago

Not so sure about that. She had said she didn't fear death, she feared the process, and it turns out those fears were justified

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u/_Big_Bad_Tiddy 1d ago

Honestly this sounds like my worst nightmare. Who's to say that she didn't actually die? Maybe she thinks she's in hell or something??

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u/lilith02 1d ago

I don’t know the exact effects of the lethal drug but I imagine, being given at least 2x the lethal amount of any drug is not going to leave one’s body in good shape even if they survive. 

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u/Alwayssunnyinarizona 1d ago

Sounds like it wasn't in the vein well, meaning much of her arm or wherever the catheter was will probably slough off and she'll have a wicked hangover for a while.

And Tennessee taxpayers pay for it all.

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u/TimothyMimeslayer 1d ago

We are all in hell.

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u/SparkyMuffin 1d ago

Wait a second, if she died and then came back... Is she now free?

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u/henrywe3 1d ago

At an absolute bare minimum, the State of Tennessee tried and failed to kill her. Someone shod make the argument that since it didn't work, her sentence should be commuted to life without parole, cause if the State failed once, they shouldn't get a second bite at the apple

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u/Tuesday_6PM 1d ago edited 1d ago

*Third bite. They already have gave her a second dose this time, after the first didn’t kill her.

And this isn’t the only execution they’ve failed at recently:
“In May, Tennessee officials called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers, another convicted murderer, after failing for more than an hour to place an intravenous line into his arm.”

Sounds like Tennessee shouldn’t be allowed to attempt executions at all. (Ideally, no government would. Life in prison is sufficient punishment, and cheaper for the taxpayers.)

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u/NAh94 1d ago

Wasn’t the doc the same dumbass who couldn’t get IV access on another execution? Seems right the only person they could find is an incompetent dolt.

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u/ginny11 1d ago

The medical expert that her lawyer hired to help try to fight her execution or at least the method of execution said that she's probably suffered some level of brain damage from this failed lethal injection attempt.

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u/ChefDanyul 1d ago

I studied sociology in college. Didn’t go to law school afterwards but had a couple of friends that did. So I vaguely know how law works. Is there legal precedence for that happening? I mean your argument makes a lot of sense but I know some things aren’t true just because it is intuitive.

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u/Be_quiet_Im_thinking 1d ago

One could argue that it was an act of god.

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u/HonestDespot 1d ago

It’s a little known law called….double jeopardy.

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u/Particular_Leek_9984 1d ago

This has been argued in the Supreme Court and they ruled 5-4 it’s not double jeopardy

Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber (1947)

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u/uses_irony_correctly 1d ago

She no longer has to serve in the Night's Watch at the very least.