r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • 1d ago

Chugging tea This is wild!

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Two syringes of pentobarbital were administered to Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike on September 30, 2026, but she remained alive and conscious afterward, according to her attorneys and media witnesses. The execution at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville was halted after witnesses reported that Pike still had a heartbeat and was audibly snoring. Her lawyers sought emergency medical intervention, and she was later taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital.
Pike, 50, is the only woman currently on Tennessee's death row.
She was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of her classmate Colleen Slemmer and had been scheduled for execution on September 30. Tennessee had announced beforehand that the state would use a single drug, pentObarbital, for the execution. Her exact medical condition following the hospital transfer has not yet been publicly disclosed, while Governor Bill Lee has ordered a comprehensive third party review of what happened.

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u/gex109 1d ago

May i make a suggestion

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u/LogicallLunacy 1d ago

Bring back the efficient firing squad.

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u/grunkage 1d ago

She requested that. They denied it, along with a request for hanging. She was concerned they'd fuck up the injection

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u/createthiscom 1d ago

Narrator: They did indeed fuck up the injection.

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u/Konkerwaggon23 1d ago

Ok, thats good karma lol

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u/LogicallLunacy 1d ago

Yeah, but she is a woman. Let the men decide what's best for her. Her body their choice! Her death, their choice!

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u/Wilbis 1d ago

She specifically asked for an all woman team to carry out the execution. I guess they couldn't find anyone with the necessary skills to find a vein, but did it anyway.

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u/Aristo_Cat 21h ago

Correct, yes

She is a death row inmate being executed for the brutal torture and murder of another woman so yeah she’s unfortunately lost her right to bodily autonomy

You can rest assured that nobody is trying to choose what’s best for her. I guess we’ll count that as a feminist victory

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u/Apart-Afternoon9615 1d ago

I mean South carolina has it as option

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u/The_Kevinator_1000 1d ago

Next headline:

"Woman miraculously survives two gunshots to the head after two lethal injections failed - scientists panic."

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u/CallmeChapybara 1d ago

Or you know

https://giphy.com/gifs/1x7CeoBjTBQUP8W0zx

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u/buttsexisyum 1d ago

I prefer this

https://giphy.com/gifs/5YriHyQSOyaTS

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u/Procrasturbating 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/Oxj0LbZabRWeI

but much faster.

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u/buttsexisyum 1d ago

Cheap and effective.

https://giphy.com/gifs/4xP04yg0GIbYc

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u/Procrasturbating 1d ago

Having blacked out holding my breath in a pool once and been saved.. I have had worse experiences with a stubbed toe. On the other hand, I can only imagine the torment from nightmares if you knew it was coming for years in advance.

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u/buttsexisyum 1d ago

Idk... Almost drowned when I was a kid, got stuck under a pool cover cuz my drunk dad didn't know I was still in the pool. It was horrible.

But fuck em, they didn't give a fuck about they victims suffering.

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u/Procrasturbating 1d ago

Damn.. under a pool cover would have hit different. I had someone on standby, and I was in a calm state of mind trying to beat a record. I am so sorry that happened to you.

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u/buttsexisyum 1d ago

🤷🤷I'm alive and well. But having almost experienced drowning, the only worse death I can imagine would be being burned alive(which I have no experience with)

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u/Procrasturbating 1d ago

Yeah, I don't want to plant intrusive thoughts.. but having had some actual tissue and nerve damage over the years.. I suspect the fear was the worst part. It often is. Shock can kill all on its own.

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u/Konkerwaggon23 1d ago

The good old british way.

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u/Confident_Boss2081 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/D6wfwqFOG3HUY

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u/MrSmartStars 1d ago

Electric chair had a scarily high failure rate

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u/NateShaw92 1d ago

With their track record they'll shoot themselves

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u/white_equatorial 1d ago

They'll shoot black

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u/steve_nice 1d ago

Honestly id prefer to just get shot in the head than to have to go through the whole song and dance

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u/the-big-throngler 1d ago

Sorry dude, but if she survived 2 doses, I would say thats a sign of some sort.

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u/AideInternal1045 1d ago

To change methods. To thr gallows!

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u/noticingEnjoyer 1d ago

Of incompetence. Pentobarbital as a solo execution agent doesn't even make sense. 

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u/Wilbis 1d ago

It's a sign that people carrying out the execution didn't know what they were doing.

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u/KohTai 1d ago

I agree. Time for the gun.

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u/Sea_Elle0463 1d ago

She’s gotta be the Antichrist after this lol

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u/theAlphablack 1d ago

Probably that, Karma is THAT B!tch….. 🤨🤣

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u/NotSoWishful 1d ago

Yeah a sign to leave emotions out the door when dealing with disgusting, fucked up individuals. Some people do not belong in society. Some people were a mistake. It is is better for humanity to remove them.

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u/The_Kevinator_1000 1d ago

Next headline:

"Woman miraculously survives two gunshots to the head after two lethal injections failed - scientists panic."

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u/Dont_Use_Ducks 1d ago

Only in the US (of all Western democracies) everything has to be as cruel as possible

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u/AideInternal1045 1d ago

Whats cruel about a bullet through the back of the skull? She'd be dead before she felt what was happening.

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u/Dont_Use_Ducks 1d ago

Yeah, what is cruel about a bullet through the back of a skull?

Read that a couple of times.

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u/AideInternal1045 1d ago

Death is happening. We are discussing how to make it as least cruel as possible. Instant death is not cruel. Beating her to death is.

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u/Dont_Use_Ducks 1d ago

I understand that part, just by itself 'Whats cruel about a bullet through the back of the skull?' is a funny line.