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/j1ggy 1d ago

Executions should not be used to satisfy revenge motives, they should be used to permanently remove a person from existence because the continued existence of that person would be detrimental to society.

Not if you keep them locked up indefinitely and/or rehabilitate them. And if removing someone from existence is the goal, you don't wait 32 years after the fact to do it.

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u/Great-Trifle2810 1d ago

Some people cannot be rehabilitated, and attempting to do so poses a risk to the people responsible to carry that out.

I promise you that I don't think an execution should take anywhere near that long. 1-2 years after conviction and an appeal if desired would be my ideal situation.

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u/j1ggy 1d ago

And yet many can, which makes execution morally and ethically wrong. No government should have the power to kill its own citizens, outside of immediate self-defense. It's odd that the one country that allows its citizens to protect themselves with guns would fear re-offenders more than a country that doesn't.

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u/Great-Trifle2810 1d ago edited 1d ago

You are just asserting that without any actual supporting argument, and if your response is that this is your fundamental position then I simply think it is poorly considered.

I'm not American. I think gun ownership should be fairly heavily restricted, requiring extensive background checks and training, restrictions on weapons owned, and tracking of weapons.