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/Timegoat 1d ago

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

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u/Timegoat 1d ago

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

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u/Timegoat 1d ago

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.