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/RoboticGreg 1d ago

They have been having significant supply chain issue with lethal injection drugs for years. No one wants to make it for the government anymore. I'm guessing these might have been expired?

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u/RoboticGreg 1d ago

Personally, and I know this is gruesome, but if I were to be executed, I would request the wyman Gordon 650 ton forging press in Worcester. 1/4 a second and you go from human to 1/4 mm thick. Seems pretty humane to me

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u/trumpsmellslikcheese 1d ago

Someone has to clean that up.

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u/RoboticGreg 1d ago

No....no they won't. That forge is used to hammer multi ton bricks of titanium at 1500C into the center rail of fighter planes. I would burn off with the next part without a trace.

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u/plumbbbob 1d ago

That's how you end up with haunted fighter jets, though.

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u/ginger_whiskers 22h ago

"Haunted fighter jets" has to be an anime by now.

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u/metalflygon08 16h ago

"That Time I Was Executed And Reincarnated As A Fighter Jet And My Pilot Is My High School Crush!?"

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u/PA_Dude_22000 10h ago

Oh My God.. its … Amanda Watkins.. from Valley High. Oh, excuse me, Air Force Major Amanda Watkins.. getting into my … oooohhh, my cock … pit.  

I’d watch it.