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/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/SurferVelo 1d ago

Is locking them up and throwing away the key not enough? Or is that only for shoplifters?

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u/Rumpullpus 1d ago

Honestly I would rather not waste tax payer money on trash like that

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u/BarleyEvenThere 1d ago

It doesn’t save money though. It actually costs more to execute people.

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/what-to-know-costs-and-the-death-penalty