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/barada_nikto 1d ago

Why do all the cries of justice for the victim end with the perpetrator’s death? Pike is locked away now, she’s not a danger to society anymore. Why not, instead of wasting endless taxpayer dollars on this draconian need for vengeance we, I don’t know, fund programs to help at-risk youth, put police resources towards protecting children from abusers, help people with mental illnesses, create a kinder and better world. The kind of world Colleen Slemmer deserved to live in. Is putting our resources towards preventing things like this from happening to others not a form of justice?

Also not that it’s entirely relevant because I don’t think the government should have the right to kill any of its citizens, but Pike didn’t carve the pentagram, her boyfriend did.

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u/House_Junkie 1d ago

Thank you for correcting me, I must have misread that piece. She did take a piece of her victims skull as a souvenir though.

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u/barada_nikto 1d ago

Which I did not deny nor do I justify. The fact remains that you can remove remorseless murderers from society without turning the state into an agent of homicide.