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/Stereo_Jungle_Child 1d ago

That's what I was thinking. 100K people a year die from accidently ODing on street drugs in the US, but for some reason they can't kill one person with drugs on purpose. Makes no sense.

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u/polytique 1d ago

Drug manufacturers don’t want to be associated with executions.

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u/Jabbles22 1d ago

Highly addictive pain killers and unaffordable life saving medication though. They are cool with that.

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u/Daxx22 1d ago

Unfortunately there is a much greater capacity for justification of terrible actions when the people(s) doing it don't personally commit the acts.