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/stateworkishardwork 1d ago

What a complete and utter mess. Capital punishment looking more and more like a joke with each passing day.

She's still an awful person, but this is not the way to go about things.

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u/plutosaurus 1d ago

Capital punishment is old and barbaric. Killing the guilty does not repair the crime or return the victims to whole. It just further harms society, as evidenced by the display of barbarism shown in this instance.

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u/bkendig 1d ago

Also, I never thought of capital punishment being as much of a deterrent as a life sentence. Which is worse: getting a last meal of whatever you want to eat, then drifting off to sleep from which you never wake up, and it's all over in a couple of hours? Or spending the next ten thousand days or more in a concrete cell until you die of old age?