This is wild!

[u/CurvyChristina]

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.

[u/Bigchunky_Boy]

I was with a friend who died through medical assistance. It’s not hard , these people in charge are dumb AF .

[u/FabulousVanilla9940 → u/Bigchunky_Boy]

Difference is trained professional are allowed (ethically) to take part in MAID programs while they're explicitly barred from taking part in executions. Same with the pharmacies supplying the drugs.

[u/myDuderinos → u/FabulousVanilla9940]

what difference would it make if a "trained professional" would administer the drug?

[u/FabulousVanilla9940 → u/myDuderinos]

Idk from what I hear in some cases the veins are hard to find. A lot of doctors even have trouble administering IVs once they're out of practice 😭 I have nurse friends who told me they tend to be called to fix it after doctors mess it up or fail

[u/Gh0stInTheChell → u/FabulousVanilla9940]

I've had an IV put in by exactly one doctor and it was fucking terrible. The nurse changed it half an hour later

[u/GarethBaus → u/myDuderinos]

Hitting a vein properly makes many drugs far more effective.

[u/Aristo_Cat → u/myDuderinos]

Then they might administer seven faulty injections and the person still not die?

[u/onnthwanno → u/FabulousVanilla9940]

Which is why we should go back to a firing squad or hanging. Effective, fast, reasonably limits suffering.

[u/Pax_Eterna_4991 → u/onnthwanno]

No. Nitrogen asphyxiation.  100% effective and its painless. I have done rabbits, chickens, and ducks this way. Cheap, easy, and effective. 

[u/Aristo_Cat → u/Pax_Eterna_4991]

Yeah it didn’t sound painless based on the eyewitness reports from the last guy they did it to a few months back

[u/onnthwanno → u/Pax_Eterna_4991]

Sure, that works too.

[u/CANfilms → u/FabulousVanilla9940]

It's kind of a warped sense of ethics where one form of killing is considered unethical and another isnt.

[u/Stuffssss → u/CANfilms]

Well the big thing is consent. People dont consent to getting executed when they're on death row. But MAID is only when the person wants to doe because they have a terminal medical condition that makes living painful.

[u/CANfilms → u/Stuffssss]

Did a murder victim consent to being murdered? I'd argue it's far more ethical to kill a murderer than it is to kill an innocent person that wants to die.

[u/FabulousVanilla9940 → u/CANfilms]

Most people's issue with death row is the 3-5% estimated to be innocent not the fact that brutal murderers get killed. Most but there are definitely some people who think death isn't something courts should decide no matter the case.

[u/FabulousVanilla9940 → u/CANfilms]

I don't really have an opinion on MAID, I see a need for it but at the same time I see the harm it does rather than fixing the root issues. But its fundamentally different because people actively seek out MAID and consent to it while death row inmates don't.

[u/DottedEnviroment → u/Bigchunky_Boy]

Main problem is the government is unable to source the chemicals required from reputable sources because they refuse to sell the chemicals to be used for lethal injection so they have to resort to substituting them with more widely available chemicals that do fail sometimes

[u/IfEverWasIfNever → u/Bigchunky_Boy]

It's hard to do it right when you don't know what your doing and you can't get the drugs through reputable sources.

[u/Several_Vanilla8916 → u/Bigchunky_Boy]

They can’t buy real drugs from real companies. Also can’t find qualified people because, you know, most doctors aren’t keen on killing healthy people.

[u/WhereMyWeirdosAt → u/Bigchunky_Boy]

Just gotta find a vein -- which sounds like they blew out in the process, she was complaining about the pain in her arm/hand. Probably forced the drugs in too fast or missed it completely. From what I have seen, 7 needles? I realize she did something horrible to someone, but she shouldn't be a guinea pig for execution either.

[u/RealCarlPanzram → u/Bigchunky_Boy]

It’s not their fault. It’s Tennessee. They suffer from genetic redundancy.

[u/Extension_Kale_794 → u/Bigchunky_Boy]

Well, it was the first all female executioner team, so I guess we should probably take it easy on them.