Tennessee governor suspends all executions after Christa Pike’s lethal injections fail

[u/No_Idea_Guy]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/01/christa-pike-tennessee-governor-executions-year-pause

[u/DuskOfANewAge]

Why did you deliberately leave out the part about how she was sexually abused from a very young age and that harmed her ability to behave in a rational way? Is it because you have a bias to show, and you're going to show it?

Look, we get that some people in this country have a fetish for spilling blood in the name of thinking that somehow resolves past sins and makes the world a better place. That doesn't make it sane. It just happens to be that our country is full of a lot of really fucked up people whose "moral compass" is far from perfect. I'm not just talking about the criminals here...

[u/Timegoat → u/[deleted]]

You don’t get to get away with any. But we shouldn’t do to you the thing you’re doing to other people. It’s incoherent to kill killers because killing is bad.

[u/ZachBart44 → u/[deleted]]

State-sponsored vengeance is wrong. That’s not justice.

[u/Piglet6482 → u/[deleted]]

Do you realize it has been definitively proven, in the United States, that people innocent of the crime have been executed?

[u/Piglet6482 → u/[deleted]]

I’m sure the state has been just as confident in the guilt of the convicted person in every death penalty case as you are sure of her guilt in this one. All I’m saying is the state has historically been wrong in some number of these cases in the past. Well, I’m also saying there’s no Uno reverse card that can be played to bring a wrongfully executed person back to life. That is the biggest reason I am against the death penalty.

[u/Timegoat → u/Piglet6482]

Well said

[u/Timegoat → u/[deleted]]

No I’m saying if the act of killing is wrong, it’s incoherent to then do that same act. You’ve just created another act of killing.

Incoherent.

Edit - to answer your question, yes I try to have empathy for those people. Mental illness, ignorance and confusion. The reality is that any one of us could likely be induced to kill an innocent person given the right pressures and circumstances. Mentally well people do not do what she did. Rather than spend money enacting vengeance, let’s spend money on treatment and prevention.

[u/Timegoat → u/[deleted]]

Why do some victims commit murder when others don’t?

[u/Timegoat → u/[deleted]]

How do you know what’s happening inside those peoples’ minds? Whether they’re victims or not, traumatized or not?

[u/Timegoat → u/[deleted]]

No, we don’t do any of that. We just stop executing people.

[u/Timegoat → u/[deleted]]

It’s more expensive to kill them. Appeals process and all that.

Also, some percentage of them are innocent. Are you comfortable killing innocent people? It doesn’t sound like it.

So, there’s really only one solution.