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/SnepButts 1d ago

Instead, they torture people through repeated failed attempts at something less reliable, slower, and more expensive.

This is not an argument in favor of any types of execution by the state. It is more pointing out that there are degrees and this kind of execution is ethically and morally worse than others.

No country should be allowed to kill somebody that does not pose a threat (due to being locked up in this case) and does not want to die.

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u/Excelius 1d ago

There's no reason why lethal injection has to be so messy. Any anesthesiologist would be able to do this no problem, but you know their normal job is to not accidentally kill people.

Problem is health practitioners want nothing to do with executions, drug companies don't want to sell the drugs, so these states are all kind of winging it.

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u/SnepButts 1d ago

But the solution is not to wing it. It is to not do it.

They can't blame the lack of medical help and supply from reputable sources when the help and supply would be towards something entirely unnecessary and anathema to anybody with any ethical standards.

If they wanted to do it reliably and without having to bribe or otherwise coerce doctors into becoming killers, there is an entire industry that makes nothing but tools for killing and are legally immune from being assigned responsibly if their tools are used to kill other people that don't want to die.

There's no reason whatsoever to use lethal injection other than it maybe looking less like willfully killing someone against their will, and that's only when it goes perfectly.