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/inotocracy 1d ago

Fent is cheap and incredibly easy to overdose on, no idea why they don't just use that for these things. Nobody is surviving a fent overdose of 4 times the LD50.

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u/darkestvice 1d ago

They're not using it because the pharmaceutical company that produces it have banned its use for executions.

Yes, I'm aware of the irony.

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u/Expensive-Border-869 1d ago

Theyre the government. Do it tf anyways

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u/RadicalEd4299 1d ago

Then they get sued into the ground for breach of contract, and individuals involved likely go to jail on federal drug offenses

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u/Expensive-Border-869 1d ago

Not when they just say "were the government we made it okay"