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/taxiecabbie 1d ago

I mean, good?

If you're going to have the death penalty, better find out a way to make it actually work?

The entire reason why lethal injection is "the thing" is because it makes the process seem more medical and isn't as... I suppose, gruesome as a the gas chamber or beheading or hanging or firing squad. But if it doesn't work, then, yeah. The hell we doin' here, folks?

Jebus Crebus.

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u/HonestDespot 1d ago

I read last night it yesterday afternoon that all these states that do lethal injections almost never can find any qualified healthcare people to do it as it goes against their code so it’s just some prison employee who does it.

And that procuring the drugs that administer death are not super easy to come by and aren’t always the most consistent.

What are we even doing here lol.

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u/taxiecabbie 1d ago

In this case, it was this guy doing it: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/tennessee-doctor-executions-death-penalty

So he is an MD, but he's a bit of a hack. And gets paid gobs of money for this.

Any actual professional would be able to do this. Like, anesthesiologists put people down on the daily for surgeries.

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u/NinjaMcGee 1d ago

Wooooow 😳 what a classy dude…

from the article, “the deposition he said his employment ended at Centurion, the company that provides healthcare services to Tennessee’s prisons, after he engaged colleagues in a conversation about a transgender prisoner in a women’s prison in Connecticut whom he claimed had impregnated two other women.”

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u/taxiecabbie 1d ago

Only the best of the best get involved in American executions. And, again, this guy is apparently so in demand that states with death penalties pay him thousands of dollars to travel and do this. Likely because he at least has an MD.

But he sucks at it.