Am I the only one...

[Richard Smith]

I'Ashea Myles did nothing wrong in the botched execution of Christa Gail Pike
I got the name wrong in my previous post

She is an example of the type of liberal judge that you say didn't exist in TN that delayed the process for three decades and then botched it.   

[Michael Capasse]

She is an example of the type of liberal judge that you say didn't exist in TN that delayed the process for three decades and then botched it.

I said not to blame. Did she do something that caused the procedures to fail?
Better yet; Why do YOU blame her?

[John Corbett]

How do you blame the left?

TN is a Republican supermajority deeply RED state that has a recent track record of botching executions.
If you are going to execute - do it right.

Botched Executions in Tennessee

• October 2026 (Christa Pike): Prison officials halted the execution process after administering the lethal drug pentobarbital, and the inmate was subsequently transferred to a medical facility for care. Following the incident, Governor Bill Lee suspended all scheduled executions to allow for an independent review.

• May 2026 (Tony Carruthers): The execution attempt was halted when personnel were unable to successfully establish the required intravenous lines. The state subsequently granted the inmate a one-year reprieve.

• April 2022 (Oscar Smith): Governor Lee called off the execution shortly before it was scheduled to begin due to a technical oversight. An internal review later revealed that the execution drugs had not undergone testing according to the required state protocols

This is why I said we should abandon lethal injections and go back to more traditional methods of execution: hanging, electric chair, gas chamber, and even firing squads. I don't recall problems with any of these.

About 30 years ago in Columbus, Ohio, a paroled murderer named Alva Campbell who was jailed for a subsequent crime, feigned paralysis and was being transported to a hospital by a single female deputy. He overpowered her and took her gun which he used to carjack an 18 year old kid named Charles Dials who had come to the county building to pay a traffic ticket. After having the kid drive him around for a while, he forced the kid to change clothes with him, then shot him dead. When he was arrested, he bragged about how he had taken the kid's whole life away from him. It took over 20 years before the court's allowed Campbell's execution to take place. By that time, he was terminally ill from cancer. They couldn't even find a usable vein to put the needle in his arm and the execution was called off. Any of the above named methods of execution could have been carried out effectively, but because we insist on "humanely" putting these scumbags to death, Campbell escaped even belated justice. He died a few months later.

Contrast that with the executions of Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, the two infamous In Cold Blood murderers who slaughtered four members of the Clutter family in November of 1959. They were also the prime suspects in the murder of another family of four in Florida while on the run from the Clutter murders. They were sentenced in Kansas to hang and their executions were carried out in April of 1965. Hickock was hanged first and it was 23 minutes between the time the trap door dropped and he was pronounced dead. Smith took 17 minutes to die. A hanging is supposed to dislocate the 3rd and 4th cervical vertebrae and sever the cerebral cortex making death instantaneous. That doesn't always happen and apparently didn't happen with either of these men. Were they conscious during the time they were hanging? Did they suffer? I don't know, but I sure hope so.

When people like this are executed, the number one priority should be that their death is certain. Whether they suffer or not during the process should be at most a minor concern. Does anyone think scum like this cared whether their victims suffered. Maybe Hickock and Perry should have been executed the same manner as their victims, with a shotgun blast to the head at close range.

[Richard Smith]

This is why I said we should abandon lethal injections and go back to more traditional methods of execution: hanging, electric chair, gas chamber, and even firing squads. I don't recall problems with any of these.

About 30 years ago in Columbus, Ohio, a paroled murderer named Alva Campbell who was jailed for a subsequent crime, feigned paralysis and was being transported to a hospital by a single female deputy. He overpowered her and took her gun which he used to carjack an 18 year old kid named Charles Dials who had come to the county building to pay a traffic ticket. After having the kid drive him around for a while, he forced the kid to change clothes with him, then shot him dead. When he was arrested, he bragged about how he had taken the kid's whole life away from him. It took over 20 years before the court's allowed Campbell's execution to take place. By that time, he was terminally ill from cancer. They couldn't even find a usable vein to put the needle in his arm and the execution was called off. Any of the above named methods of execution could have been carried out effectively, but because we insist on "humanely" putting these scumbags to death, Campbell escaped even belated justice. He died a few months later.

Contrast that with the executions of Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, the two infamous In Cold Blood murderers who slaughtered four members of the Clutter family in November of 1959. They were also the prime suspects in the murder of another family of four in Florida while on the run from the Clutter murders. They were sentenced in Kansas to hang and their executions were carried out in April of 1965. Hickock was hanged first and it was 23 minutes between the time the trap door dropped and he was pronounced dead. Smith took 17 minutes to die. A hanging is supposed to dislocate the 3rd and 4th cervical vertebrae and sever the cerebral cortex making death instantaneous. That doesn't always happen and apparently didn't happen with either of these men. Were they conscious during the time they were hanging? Did they suffer? I don't know, but I sure hope so.

When people like this are executed, the number one priority should be that their death is certain. Whether they suffer or not during the process should be at most a minor concern. Does anyone think scum like this cared whether their victims suffered. Maybe Hickock and Perry should have been executed the same manner as their victims, with a shotgun blast to the head at close range.

The left has hijacked this issue by putting the focus on the criminal instead of the victim.  As a result, hangings and other forms of effective capital punishment are largely a political nonstarter.  It's a hopeless case to convince enough people to go back to the good old days.  Lethal injection is viewed as a more "humane" manner of death.  So some middle of the road types are still willing to entertain it.

[John Corbett]

The left has hijacked this issue by putting the focus on the criminal instead of the victim.  As a result, hangings and other forms of effective capital punishment are largely a political nonstarter.  It's a hopeless case to convince enough people to go back to the good old days.  Lethal injection is viewed as a more "humane" manner of death.  So some middle of the road types are still willing to entertain it.

You're probably right. Since it takes 25-30 years now to exhaust the appeals process, the method of execution is the least of the problems we face administering justice.

[Tom Scully]

...who doesn't give a xxxx how much Christa Pike has suffered due to her botched lethal injection execution?

Why did we ever get rid of the electric chair. I don't recall problems like this coming up with Old Sparky.

During past ten years, only 14 states and '45 Trump have performed executions. Five of those states are
former confederate states. States performing executions, except Utah, dominated by a cult, are least safe
most violent, "enjoy" lowest average education level and highest incarceration rates per capita.

So, why do it? Executioners end up with PTSD, and execution process costs much more than life sentences.
Some states award money to wrongfully convicted. Why not abolish and fund scholarships for criminal justice
education in the names of murder victims, with part of taxpayer funds saved from abolishing executions?

After a grisly triple murder, the state of Connecticut abolished the death penalty, anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Connecticut
"Cheshire murder case
One notable capital case in Connecticut was the Cheshire home invasion murders. The two murderers, Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky, were both sentenced to death for the crime, and were among the inmates who had their sentences reduced as result of the state supreme court ruling. Survivor Dr. Petit condemned the state's decision to abolish capital punishment and spare the two criminals.[13]"

If you enjoy residing in a shithole state, cling to reactionary right wing mindset and dismiss scientific consensus.

Massachusetts is ranked 2nd safest state, no executions, lowesr per capita incarcerated, 241 per 100,000
twice % earned Bachelor's degrees as least educated state West Virginia, the state with least foreign born %
and highest  % white native born. Massachusetts has closed prisons due to lack of inmates. Alabama building
new prisons at construction cost of  $300,000 per bed !

https://wallethub.com/edu/safest-states-to-live-in/4566