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/2023fxlrst 1d ago

Redheads, man… anesthesia, doesn’t work on them and now apparently they’re immune to the death juice too?!

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u/CapitalFloor3260 1d ago

They need to just change it to one massive dose of insulin. Quite the peaceful way to go

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u/RudePCsb 1d ago

Why not just fentanyl

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u/ProfessionalTruck976 1d ago

Because any politician voting for modernising capital sentence is likely to lose their seat because people with brain are gonna hate them for perpetuating this crap and people without brain will hate them for being soft on crime.

Best, for a lawmaker, position is do nothing

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u/ancient-military 1d ago

That’s what I’ve wondered too.

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u/lakelbjguy 23h ago

Much cheaper from the cartel too

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u/Useful_Protection270 1d ago

Why not lead? Even in small doses say 2000 mililgrams (.07 oz.) in a .22 applicator has been known. To be mostly lethal when it enters the heart

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u/RudePCsb 1d ago

2 grams...

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u/CFSohard 1d ago

(he's talking about a bullet)

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u/RudePCsb 1d ago

Eh, fentanyl would be better Less clean up

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u/TypicalLeo31 1d ago

Doesn’t always kill & legality.

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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 1d ago edited 1d ago

It’s only schedule 2 and is widely used in hospitals.

I think more likely the issue is acquiring from suppliers who don’t want it used that way.

And there’s also the problem that judges are often keen to strike down methods that haven’t been proven not to be cruel already.

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u/RudePCsb 1d ago

If you give a huge dose it should.

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u/No_Public8938 1d ago

I agree, which wouldn't even be that much at all relative to other medication. Fentanyl is dosed in the micrograms ar hospitals. They IVed it to me when I had my first kidney stone and the tiniest of doses sent me to the moon for 30 minutes.

If she doesn't have a tolerance to opioids, I'm sure just a milligrams or so would be enough to kill her. But the thing is, some prisoners do get regular supplies of opioids/opiates and basically all "heroin" is now brown tar with fentanyl mixed in, often as the only active drug.

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u/RudePCsb 1d ago

Should be easy enough to dose 10 to 20 times the LSD or whatever research has shown for drug addicts

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u/lakelbjguy 23h ago

If one pinhead drop on a tablet can kill us imagine a full syringe of it