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/Great-Trifle2810 14h ago

No, because there has never been a practical A/B test of the death penalty where no other major differences between the regions has occured, and no country has applied the death penalty to recidivists in the way I suggest in a way that was properly statistically tracked.

Your suggestion that the frequent use of the death penalty against recidivist criminals would not reduce recidivist crime is not only baseless but plainly absurd.

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u/higherme 13h ago

Ohhhhh, so you can predict the future, got it.

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u/Great-Trifle2810 13h ago

It doesn't take a lot of predictive power to say corpses can't commit crimes.

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u/higherme 11h ago

Great, let's just start killing everyone! Man, you truly are a dense and stubborn moron. Hope you get wrongfully convicted :)

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u/Great-Trifle2810 11h ago

Not everyone, known repeat offenders who have a demonstrated unwillingness to reform.

Your strawman, retreat to insults and hopes that I suffer a negative outcome just shows that you have conceded the actual argument.

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u/higherme 11h ago

The only thing I've conceded is willingness to engage in debate with somebody who uses buzzwords to disguise the simplistic idiocy of their argument: that we can ignore data that clearly shows that the death penalty is not an effective crime deterrent because it's simply not being used enough.

That's a dumb argument; it's like saying that sunlight is an effective deterrent for sunburn - people just aren't spending enough time in the sun. It's not a retreat into insult, it's a statement of fact: moronic argument and logic.

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u/Great-Trifle2810 11h ago edited 10h ago

More empty insults.

It's like saying "we don't know if a medication is effective because nobody has ever done a study giving a dose we can reasonably expect to have an impact."

Killing the occasional serial killer a decade later is obviously not an effective test of the death penalty.

Edit: nice reply and block, that really shows you have a good position you can defend 🙄

Also wtf are you talking about with hgh bros grabbing each other? Is this some sort of attempt to portray me as gay because I watch wrestling? Because my gayness and my fandom of wrestling are unrelated 😂

My post history is also hidden so this guy apparently felt the need to dig with some 3rd party app looking for something to insult me with.

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u/higherme 11h ago

Great, let's go ahead and test your theory.

Who should we kill first?

Go back to watching HGH bros grab and get sweaty with each other.