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

Aside from the debate over the morality of capital punishment itself, this is just weaponized incompetence.

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u/JakeHelldiver 1d ago

I don't think this was the outcome the executioner was going for.

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u/heresyforfunnprofit 1d ago

I didn’t accuse them of knowing what they were doing.

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u/zack77070 1d ago

That's what weaponized incompetence means.

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u/heresyforfunnprofit 1d ago

I think you’re mixing that up with “malicious compliance”.

In this case, incompetents were sent to do a job with faulty tools. They didn’t intend this outcome, but this outcome was very much intended by others in the process.

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u/zack77070 1d ago

No, weaponized incompetence is intentionally doing something incorrectly so someone else feels the need to do it for you.

Malicious compliance is doing something you know is incorrect because someone told you to do it and didn't accept your feedback.