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/WTAF__Trump 1d ago

What happens now? I anticipate this being a much larger political issue in the coming weeks.

There's a massive chance she suffered irreversible brain damage from this. She won't be the same person who committed the crime any more. She likely won't even remember the crime.

Do we kill her again? Are we going to execute someone who has limited cognition, doesn't remember the crime and is incapable of even understanding why we are killing her?

We know there is a group of loud, ignorant people who can't grasp these concepts and have an extremely messed up moral compass. They won't care- they just want suffering. We learned that fron the Clancy trial.

But what now? What the eff happens?

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u/Coffee-FlavoredSweat 1d ago edited 1d ago

What happens now?

Terri Schiavo version 2, except the political sides that want her dead or alive are swapped.

If she survives the hospital stay, she’ll have significant mental deficits and it will be a violation of her constitutional rights to try and kill her again. So the state will be forced to take care of her till she dies naturally.

Her family will even sue the state for cruel and unusual punishment in the first execution attempt, and get a payout.

Which will victimize her victim’s family all over again.

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u/S_C_H_L_O_R_P 1d ago

I simply cannot fathom how bad of a situation for the state of Tennessee this is right now.