Tennessee just gave up on executions after a botched attempt on Christa Gail Pike
State officials couldn't finish the job, and now the whole program is on ice.
So, Tennessee tried to carry out an execution this week, and it went about as poorly as you can imagine. Despite hitting Christa Gail Pike with two separate doses of lethal drugs, she simply didn't die. The state basically blinked, realized their process was failing in real-time, and decided to just pack it up for the rest of the year.
The state literally ran out of ways to kill someone mid-procedure and hit the pause button. It turns out that when the mechanics of the death penalty go sideways, the government prefers to just stop the show rather than keep poking at it.
Killing someone is apparently a lot harder than the state budget meetings suggest.
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