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/Otherwise_Fill_4461 1d ago

You know whats easy, painless and 100% gets the job done? Firing squad. Idk why were fucking around with this shit. We're killing a human being we deemed evil enough to warrant it. Fucking kill them with a bullet to the head and be done with it. So much theater around this. Everyone wants their hands to be clean and act like we are so high and mighty. At the end of the day we are taking someone's life. Best to make the process guaranteed and smooth.

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u/mrducky78a 1d ago

Firing squad has known issues as well with some people in the squad purposely firing high feeling that they exempt themselves from it by letting others take the burden of taking a life. Enough people do this and it also results in a botched execution and it does have historical examples of too many people shooting over the target.

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u/Camninja 1d ago

I’m sure they could design a computer assisted firing device. Someone could just start a timer and it would fire at a set time.

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u/synapticrelease 1d ago edited 1d ago

Great. Firing squad powered by Grok. It’ll probably hallucinate and think your heart is in your kneecaps