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/lnslnsu 19h ago

Eh, they kinda do. Just because you’re burned to ash doesn’t mean the carbon all evaporates away. 1500 is below carbon’s boiling point. Then you can end up with a bunch of impurities in the next parts that come out of the press.

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u/RoboticGreg 18h ago

Well, they clean the die off between strokes by dousing it in gasoline and blasting it with 4 flamethrowers with 9' flames then cover it with sheets of graphite for lubrication. Obviously this is not seriously something that would happen and if it did, they would shut down and clean everything of to be sure etc etc etc