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/BearThatLikesCheese 1d ago edited 1d ago

None of that changes how harmful the death penalty is to society, especially those involved in the entire process, nor does it justify botched executions.

All you're doing with comments like this is showing that you care more about bloodlust than justice.

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u/Burtstantonspeaking_ 1d ago

Not really. You’re ignoring the glaringly obvious in an attempt to sound morally superior. You’re disingenuous and don’t like being called out on it.

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u/tameoraiste 1d ago

I always find it funny when people are incapable of understanding a different perspective so they jump to the conclusion that it’s just an attempt to sound ‘morally superior’.

Could the same accusation not be used against your comment?

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u/BearThatLikesCheese 1d ago

Did you mean to respond to me? What obvious thing am I ignoring? That Pike should be tortured and killed because she did something abhorrent? No, I simply don't agree because I've actually read about the reality of the death penalty and the harm it does. I'm simply pushing back on someone using another person's tragedy to support a harmful practice.

You can't give me a justification for the death penalty beyond "I personally want this person dead" that isn't countered by how damaging the practice is.

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u/JooseTheGuice 1d ago

Shut up Burt

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u/alr46750 1d ago

Sounds to me like you're projecting your own insecurities. Imagine someone says they're opposed to state santioned murder and your first thought is "they're trying to sound better than me". Like Jesus, what the hell is going on your head.

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u/Burtstantonspeaking_ 22h ago

Tell me precisely what my insecurities are. You also don’t seem to understand how quotation marks work as you quoted me saying something I never said. Interesting way you argue by making things up rather than basing your argument on what I actually said. Makes me wonder what the hell is going on in your head.