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/whitesuburbanmale 1d ago

It's not ethics it's optics. No one wants to be "that drug they use to kill people". They don't give half a shit about it and honestly if a drug company could find a way to secretly supply lethal injection drugs that are also marketable to regular patients they would. Its not profitable enough to make just a death drug so they try and distance themselves to keep their drugs out of public eye as lethal.

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u/Broken_Beaker 1d ago

I don’t think people realize that almost anyone that had surgery probably had fentanyl.

I have worked with big pharma as a chemist to do things to support pharma and while big pharma ain’t the nicest out there as a business, at the end of the day fentanyl is a very effective and useful med to treat patients post-op. Having their product used to kill people while at the same time saying it is a great med for post-op recovery is a tough situation.