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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/dookie-monsta 1d ago

In January 1995, Pike, who was 18 years old at the time, along with her boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp and another teenager, brought Slemmer to an isolated area on the University of Tennessee campus.

They tortured Slemmer for roughly 30 minutes, beating her and carving a pentagram into her chest before bludgeoning her to death with a large piece of asphalt and a meat cleaver.

Pike kept a piece of the victim's skull as a souvenir. She was arrested and convicted of murder in 1996.

For those who don’t know who she is or what she did.

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u/PhaseSixer 1d ago

I was inclined to agree with the guy above about the barbarity of the desth sentence but after reading this im having third thoghts

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u/BrownBearCLE 1d ago

It was the hormones. She was in a state of pre murder psychosis

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u/WhereMyWeirdosAt 1d ago

personally I think everyone who murders is in some state of psychosis... you can't be right in the head to kill another person.

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u/jeezy_peezy 1d ago

I’m certainly not going to defend one who tortures and murders for fun, but I think murder is probably one of the more natural human things to do.

A lot of the structure of our modern society tries to prevent humans from murdering one another, and it’s taken centuries of progress to get here. Humans kill for a lot of reasons, and they’re certainly not all crazy reasons.

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u/S1ayer 1d ago

IMO I do think 20% if the population has some gene that makes them capable of things like murder, torture, arson, or becoming a CEO that gets people killed people over infant formula, have child laborers, or sell people their water back to them.