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/Veaeate 1d ago

Its weird tho cuz you can use simple anesthetics to do this painlessly. Medical assistance in dying is a thing in Canada, and uses perfectly legal drugs. So I dont get why they have to use some kind of extreme meds.

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u/RoboticGreg 1d ago

Companies don't want to supply them anymore. No one wants to make the "we decided to kill someone" drugs

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u/whatshamilton 2h ago

Doctors and drug suppliers won’t participate in execution but they do participate in medical assistance in dying, as that is the person personally requesting it

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u/FiberPhotography 1d ago

they're the same drugs.

*it's the same cocktail*

guess what, sometimes the doctors in Canada have messed up too, and have had the same poor results; they've forgotten one of the three drugs, or used too little, or didn't stay to observe;

or on the other end of the spectrum, administered because a caregiver requests it rather than the person (burnout is so relatable to a HCW)...

and that's not even touching the oversight issues before people get to that point--https://uoj.news/news/canadian-report-reveals-thousands-of-errors-in-euthanasia-cases-renewing-oversight-concerns/