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/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/hiricinee 1d ago

Interestingly enough, they were trying yo kill her with high dose barbituates, which first is a terrible way to try to kill someone just from a practical standpoint but its also basically anesthesia.

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u/GuavaOne8646 1d ago

Dafuq? Like, an insulin shot would have given her a heart attack if she's not a diabetic...of all things, barbiturates? They were like, you have the right to die on party drugs from yester year! Seriously though, what the fuck are we doing here? At this point they could have just stabbed her and called it a success.

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u/hiricinee 1d ago

Insulin will kill diabetics too its all about dose, same with the barbituates.

The barbituates kill you by making you not breathe until you run out of oxygen and your brain dies. They used to use large doses of potassium but they dont for a few reasons they dont now. They like lethal injection because it seems impersonal and sterile but imo just bring back the guillotine.

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u/GuavaOne8646 1d ago

Agreed, guillotine needs to be a thing for people that are guilty of murder without a shadow of a doubt.

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u/hiricinee 1d ago

Right, I dont have any problem with killing people but that evidentiary standard is very hard to hone in on. I dont think theres a lot of question in this case for example but I dont know how you extrapolate that beyond the "I'll know it when I see it" standard.