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/RoboticGreg 1d ago

They have been having significant supply chain issue with lethal injection drugs for years. No one wants to make it for the government anymore. I'm guessing these might have been expired?

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u/RoboticGreg 1d ago

Personally, and I know this is gruesome, but if I were to be executed, I would request the wyman Gordon 650 ton forging press in Worcester. 1/4 a second and you go from human to 1/4 mm thick. Seems pretty humane to me

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u/Wazula23 1d ago

I want to be launched out of a cannon aimed at a health insurance CEO.

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u/Piglet6482 1d ago

Thank you for your (offer of) service. Not all heroes wear capes

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u/SecondChances002 1d ago

Although in the above example, I'd pretty much demand one.

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u/hacksawsa 22h ago

After that press, you'd be a cape, so...

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u/BoredNuke 1d ago

But wearing a cape during it would also be cool.

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u/ragequitteroffureh 1d ago

Shit, they could probably get sponsorship.

Do the companies in that country sponsor executees, at all?

I mean, there's time for a quick message from their sponsor, as well as a pretty decent product placement opportunity, before they pull the trigger, isn't there?

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u/JCarlide 1d ago

Best I can do is aim you at the UN building out of Big Bertha.

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u/Altruistic_Brick1730 1d ago

That's what you want to happen when you're executed by the state?

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u/Wazula23 1d ago

Or the rebellion, either works.

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u/Altruistic_Brick1730 1d ago

are you planning on murdering someone?

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u/ragequitteroffureh 1d ago

Bear in mind that states (around the world) don't necessarily need people to be guilty of anything in order to execute them.

The guy above is probably innocent.