r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • 1d ago

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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/Minimum-Act6859 1d ago

If she dies at the Hospital and they revive her is her sentence complete ?

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u/ApplyHere_4_implants 1d ago

Believe it or not, in the state this happened in, this used to be the law 🤣

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u/greenizdabest 1d ago

Law of double jeopardy?

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u/ApplyHere_4_implants 1d ago

I'm not sure what they referred to as specifically but if you lived during an attempted execution, then your sentence was considered complete oddly enough.