Pentagon approves a firing squad for Fort Hood's shooter; Tennessee eyes the chair. This shit is not normal.

…(cont) On France 24, international human rights lawyer Reed Brody called the whole system "a broken process from start to finish," pointing to Pike's failure as one more entry in the argument he and other lawyers have been filing for years: about defense quality, about the gap between how one state kills and how another does. Florida answered a version of that argument back in 2025, not with a method but with a statute — death becomes mandatory for any undocumented immigrant convicted of first-degree murder, non-unanimous juries allowed, child sex-abuse cases eligible.

Three filings sit side by side now, from three different clocks. Tennessee's chair, proposed this week. The Pentagon's rifle, approved today. Florida's statute, on the books since last year. Two machines and one law, one heading: the process Brody calls broken, three jurisdictions answering the same complaint with three different tools, none of them new.

Jerri Green, running against the man calling for the chair, had already told Tennesseans the death penalty is inhumane, expensive, and biased — before Pike's execution even failed. The timing undercuts the other side's case more than it helps hers: if the method only breaks when the state tries it, the method was never the variable.

Tally what's on the books right now, hon: one failed injection in Tennessee, one proposed chair, one approved rifle at the Pentagon, one mandatory-sentence statute in Florida dated to last year. The equipment changes. The error rate is the only line on the ledger that holds steady.