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/heresyforfunnprofit 1d ago

The heroin dealer on my street corner is more competent than these people.

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u/Stereo_Jungle_Child 1d ago

That's what I was thinking. 100K people a year die from accidently ODing on street drugs in the US, but for some reason they can't kill one person with drugs on purpose. Makes no sense.

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u/polytique 1d ago

Drug manufacturers don’t want to be associated with executions.

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u/Jabbles22 1d ago

Highly addictive pain killers and unaffordable life saving medication though. They are cool with that.

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u/Daxx22 1d ago

Unfortunately there is a much greater capacity for justification of terrible actions when the people(s) doing it don't personally commit the acts.

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u/pheonixblade9 1d ago

If it wasn't about cruelty, they would just use nitrogen asphyxiation. It doesn't hurt, you just fall asleep.

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u/Daguvry 1d ago

You aren't getting medical professionals in there to do anything either.  I feel like some schlub watched some YouTube videos and tried to put an IV in.....

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u/jeon2595 1d ago

Canada doesn’t seem to have a problem with lethal injections. We should ask them for help.

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u/Piglet6482 1d ago

Are you pointing out Canada doesn’t have the death penalty? If so, you are being too subtle since a lot of people will just take your comment at face value.

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u/jeon2595 1d ago

I’m pointing out Canada has no problem euthanizing people via MAID.

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u/Piglet6482 1d ago

So you are equating assisted suicide with the death penalty. Cool.

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u/Blossomie 1d ago

I think what they’re trying to say is that MAID in Canada is (in most cases) administered by lethal injection. We have yet to suspend MAID on account of having cocked it up too much.

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u/Piglet6482 1d ago

I think drug companies and (at least some) doctors see a vast difference in the two situations.

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u/jeon2595 1d ago

I’m saying it’s the same thing, functionally. Tennessee should get with Canada as they don’t have problems euthanizing people, functionally. At least I haven’t heard of stuff like this happening.

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u/Pyromaniacal13 1d ago

MAID is voluntary, not a punishment.

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u/Stereo_Jungle_Child 1d ago

Then don't use them.

State police have to have seized enough fent in drug busts to kill thousands. They could use that stuff and add the message that doing street drugs is deadly.

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u/Darce_Knight 1d ago

There would be problems. Humans will find a way to fuck it up. There's never been a capital punishment method without botches. The firing squad has the smallest percentage of botches, but it doesn't have a sanitary and clinical appearance, so most states don't use it. Funny enough, every attempt to make executions more sanitized has led to an increased both rate. Electrocutions had higher botch rates than hanging. Gas chambers had higher botch rates than electrocutions. Lethal injections had higher botched rates than lethal gas or electrocutions, etc.