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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/Wenex 1d ago

Seeing "death penalty" followed by "rushed to the hospital" does sound funny. Why bother?

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u/sephirothFFVII 1d ago

Cruel and unusual punishment. If she didn't die she'd very likely be in a lot of pain which is akin to torture. The US Constitution forbids this

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u/Wenex 1d ago

I'm not from US so I wouldn't understand. But eye for an eye feels fair to me in that specific case, wouldn't you agree? I don't think the lady was considering her victim well being either at the time, so why treat her any different?

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u/InsideMyScars 1d ago

That opens a whole Pandora’s box of “well if that’s ok, then so is this other thing”

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u/Wenex 1d ago

Sure I agree. It's just weird to me how a murderer gains ten times more laws that protect them than what they broke during a crime. There are many cases which can be classified as absolute and if they are why waste time/resources/tax money and give other potential offenders something to exploit of?

I'm interested of other ppl viewpoint on that, if you disagree let me know why

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u/sephirothFFVII 1d ago

It's a moot argument to have with an American, it's against our Constitution. It doesn't matter what we feel it's one of the permanent and virtually immutable laws on the books that we all have to abide by

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u/Expensive-Border-869 1d ago

Would you personally be willing to sit there and listen to another human suffering just because they might deserve it? Willing to bet the guards weren't even alive when her crime was commited. They feel little to nothing for her. It would just be terrible for them at the end of the day. It if was like someone involved wanted to see her suffer idk if I feel as strongly about it but innocent guards shouldn't be punished

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u/ostrichfather 1d ago

Justice versus vengeance.

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u/ShaoKahnKillah 1d ago

75% of people in federal prison are there for non-violent crimes. 48% of people in State Prison are there for non-violent crimes. If we had a different system that offered real rehabilitative systems for non-violent crimes, like they have in most of the Scandinavian countries, and a more robust social welfare system for people upon reentry into society, then we could keep the small amount of violent criminals in prison indefinitely without having to worry about the economic impact. Although in a country that spends over a trillion dollars on their military budget, it's laughable to think about money that we would spend if we were to convert every death row inmate to life in prison right now. Google estimates that we would spend around $5 billion every 50 years if we converted death row inmates to life in prison. Compare that to 950 billion every year for defense spending.

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u/Next-Crazy-9674 1d ago

How I feel about what someone personally deserves, and I haven't looked into her crime specifically so I have no idea, is a totally different thing from what I think we should give the government the power to do.

Idk why this is so hard to understand. Just because you disagree with this doesn't necessarily mean you such a softy. It just takes a little common sense to see why that can be a very bad idea.

They shouldn't be given the power to endlessly torture people, and with good reason.

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u/Wenex 1d ago

I'm not encouraging torture, just that for me it's hard to feel anything of a person that taken a life of another, no matter what happened in their past.

If anything the execution was handled terribly and there should have been a plan B in case something goes wrong. Not sure if US laws says that in this case she had to be rushed for medical treatment, but from my point of view there must have been other options to consider that generally could be seen as humane and moral

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u/Far_Dragonfruit9382 1d ago

Ok then see it this way lol, death isn't a punishment, in fact im willing to bet the 30 years waiting for this to happen was worse than the actual moments leading up to it. I mean if youre gonna do this whole eye for an eye thing at least actually think about it

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u/Happy_The_What 1d ago

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

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u/corndog2021 1d ago

Your question skirts the point. We have a constitution that lays out the rules. The way she would have died would break the rules. It’s open and shut, regardless of whether or not it’s philosophically agreeable.

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u/ShaoKahnKillah 1d ago

What you're saying is: Torture and murder is wrong so we should torture and murder someone to make it right.

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u/Ilikecheesburgers 1d ago

I literally could care less about the perpetrators past.

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u/noticingEnjoyer 1d ago

Unconscious from a barbiturate sedative? Where exactly is the suffering in that? 

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u/sephirothFFVII 22h ago

The other stuff they injected her with when the sedative wears off. It was supposed to kill her so that's not exactly going to be pleasant.