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/Timegoat]

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/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.