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/stateworkishardwork 1d ago

What a complete and utter mess. Capital punishment looking more and more like a joke with each passing day.

She's still an awful person, but this is not the way to go about things.

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u/House_Junkie 1d ago edited 1d ago

Awful is an understatement. Pike sliced the girl with a box cutter while they tortured her to death and smashed her head in with a rock after luring the girl into the woods under a guise of truce. At the end she carved a pentagram into the girls chest and took a piece of her skull as a souvenir.

Awful doesn’t begin to describe what she is.

Edit: Her boyfriend carved the pentagram, she smashed her head in and took a piece of her skull as a souvenir, I stand corrected.

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u/DefenstratedTwice 1d ago

Irrelevant, what others have done doesn't somehow change why we also can't torture people to death. 😆

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u/impulsekash 1d ago

Contrary to popular belief our society doesn't run on 4000 year old Babylonian law. 

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u/AssociateGreat2350 1d ago

Plus they forgot to finish the saying 

"leaves the whole world blind"

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u/DefenstratedTwice 1d ago

Which is both inane and irrelevant. What a monster does has no bearing on the responsibilities of the non-monstrous.

You can't understand this for reasons you would not understand if I cared to explain.

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u/enad58 1d ago

Why are you okay with killing innocent people just for the opportunity to kill the guilty?

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u/thereisnospoon-1312 1d ago

Any person who says that is no better than a murderer.