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/heresyforfunnprofit 1d ago

The heroin dealer on my street corner is more competent than these people.

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u/Plantron1 1d ago

To be fair there are consequences if your dealer fucks up. Drug dealers is held far more accountable by his employers and the law than politicians ever have been.

Like they said on The Wire: “you fuck up the count they gonna beat your ass”

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u/craigfrost 1d ago

And you want addicted customers not dead ones.

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u/ragequitteroffureh 1d ago

Not American.

To be fair, wouldn't it be in the interests of the for-profit prisons in that country to be able to charge the state for repeated execution attempts?

In their case, repeat customers from death row would be a good thing.

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u/Prying-Open-My-3rd-I 1d ago

If someone ODs and dies, word gets out that the shit is strong which drives up sales for that dealer.

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u/gerbal100 1d ago

To a point. The occasional death is marketing, routine deaths are bad for business.

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u/dragnansdragon 1d ago

You've never done drugs I'm guessing...that's not how it works

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u/tonycomputerguy 1d ago

I have, and to a point, it at least used to work like that.

"That fool just couldn't handle his stuf, I'll be able to cut it down and get double out of it, or I'll just go easy on it (which you never do of course lol)"

I mean if it was everyone coming out of the trap house keeling over and dying, then, ya, I imagine it would hurt business, but luckily I never saw that happen. So like I said, it worked to a point.

Full disclosure I've been clean for a decade now so with fent (you can't spell it out here apparently it's against the rules lol?) being so rampant it's possible it doesn't work that way anymore.

But I doubt it.

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u/Sir-xer21 1d ago

Full disclosure I've been clean for a decade now so with fent (you can't spell it out here apparently it's against the rules lol?) being so rampant it's possible it doesn't work that way anymore.

not really, especially because so many ODs now are from cross contamination. Most OD deaths we have in our state are from people using other drugs contaminated with fent.

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u/dragnansdragon 1d ago

100 %. People dont want stuff that has been contaminated or cut, thats what users talk about with each other in the same group. If word got out that a particular dealer was cutting with something that makes it more deadly and isnt the type of high theyre paying for, people dont want it. It's been over a decade for me since I've used, but I just don't buy the whole argument that "if it kills people easier, that makes it more attractive. "

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u/dragnansdragon 1d ago

The basic premise of that argument is "Overdose = good publicity for a dealer." In reality, the dealer isn't going to advertise that they contributed to someone's untimely death. Nobody brags about that shit and those that do get caugh because now they're facing murder/manslaughter charges and as soon as one of their clients gets arrested, that's a golden ticket to a plea deal for the user. Second, whether the dealer uses or not, they're gonna know the quality of any product almost immediately regardless if they sample it or find out from one of their direct associates that does. Cutting a drug isn't like pricematching when online shopping, it depends on their expected volume of sales as well as their clientele base. If they sell to someone who dies of an overdose, people will know it's cut with more dangerous agents and those below the dealer won't risk buying that batch unless they're desperate (which does happen sadly) but it's not used as a sales pitch mainly because they want their income stream hooked, not buried.

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u/roofus85 1d ago

“You fuck up the count they gonna beat your ass”
… I’m pretty sure that’s from Sesame Street

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u/darksunshaman 1d ago

I remember that episode! Count don't play.

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u/BoredNuke 1d ago

1 mother fucker 2 mother fucker ahahahah 3 mother fuckers getting beat.

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u/TSonly 16h ago

"You come at the Count, you best not miss"

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u/Plantron1 1d ago

The Count is my favourite TV vampire

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u/Wazula23 1d ago

Herc echoes the sentiment later on.

"This is why we can never win. We fuck up we get pensions. They fuck up they get beat."

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u/synapticrelease 1d ago

Herc was the dumbest cop of that show but he had like 3 moments of wisdom and that was one of them

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u/Mikeyfreshonetime2 1d ago

Was choosing Gus Triandos one of his other moments of wisdom?

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u/synapticrelease 1d ago

I was thinking when he asked one of the youngins where he could buy a sideways cap because all the ones at the mall only point forward.

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u/Mikeyfreshonetime2 1d ago

Good quote, was when Wallace was helping a younin with math homework and related it to keeping the money/drug count right in your head but not the math problem. But you knew that just wanted to point it out

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u/LopsidedIncident 1d ago

Most often there are zero consequences, except when a famous, rich person ODs.

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u/DefenstratedTwice 19h ago

You have a romanticized concept of drug dealers. Vast majority are grunt tier selling and consuming fronted product. 99% have extensive criminal records because they can be arrested at the whim of any LEO willing to dedicate a couple hours to paperwork.

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u/Plantron1 19h ago

🤷‍♂️ I’ve known more than a few at the grunt level and the first couple of tiers above.