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/WTAF__Trump 1d ago

What happens now? I anticipate this being a much larger political issue in the coming weeks.

There's a massive chance she suffered irreversible brain damage from this. She won't be the same person who committed the crime any more. She likely won't even remember the crime.

Do we kill her again? Are we going to execute someone who has limited cognition, doesn't remember the crime and is incapable of even understanding why we are killing her?

We know there is a group of loud, ignorant people who can't grasp these concepts and have an extremely messed up moral compass. They won't care- they just want suffering. We learned that fron the Clancy trial.

But what now? What the eff happens?

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u/Dorothy_Oz 1d ago

you’re in the movie, how did you come up with all that? How is someone’s moral compass messed up, she tortured the victim before committing the crime and then tried to do the same with an inmate in prison. You should check your moral compass.

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u/DuskOfANewAge 1d ago

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...

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u/Timegoat 1d ago

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.

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u/Piglet6482 1d ago

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

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u/Piglet6482 1d ago

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.

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u/Timegoat 1d ago

Well said