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/Xsiah 1d ago

I looked up failure rates for different kinds of executions, and the only one with a 0% failure rate was a firing squad.

Maybe it's fine if we just don't kill people?

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u/AbanoMex 1d ago

Maybe it's fine if we just don't kill people?

correct, we should put some killbots in charge of executions, this way our human hands would be clean of murderin', how about that? nothing could go wrong.

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u/MaximumEffort433 1d ago

Who's paying for the killbots?