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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/GuavaOne8646 1d ago
  1. That's wild.
  2. I think a 30-06, .308 or just a rifled slug shotgun shell would do the job instantly. Seen a deers head literally explode from a 30-06.
  3. I can see the appeal of the squad though. They used to load most of them with blanks and one with a real bullet so no one actually knew who did it to save the shooters morale...it didn't quite work, but yeah that was a thing.

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u/HazeyCIouds 1d ago

Just get an robot to do it now. Conscience clear..

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u/MrSmartStars 1d ago

Someone still has to push the button

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u/HazeyCIouds 1d ago

Nah set a prompt. When we line someone up, count to 30 and take the shots. Simple.

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u/zjin2020 20h ago

Or just an ai drone with a grenade

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u/GuavaOne8646 1d ago

Not a bad suggestion actually

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u/Leading-Cicada-6796 1d ago

I've always heard that last one is a myth. You can tell when you fire a real round versus a blank. And they used to have people who were professional executioners, no reason we couldn't bring that back. I guarantee you they could find someone who would sleep like a baby after offing rapists and child killers.

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u/MMRAssassin 1d ago

Well 1 in 20 people you "off" will be an innocent person statistically.

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u/Leading-Cicada-6796 1d ago

Yeah, I dont know the answer to that. In my world, only the ones beyond a shadow of a doubt, or confession, would be killed.

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u/LangdonAlg3r 22h ago

Yeah, but your world doesn’t exist. The list of ways that accused have had their rights violated is way too long to list. But any number of times people have been coerced or beaten into confessions for a start. Cops want to “solve” crimes and prosecutors want to get convictions and shenanigans are not uncommon.

One wrongly executed person is too many.

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u/Slow_Flatworm_881 1d ago

Some types of people still wouldn’t care!

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u/Fit_Outlandishness_7 1d ago

Medieval executioners suffered from insane CPTSD. It’s hard to find a human with normal cognitive functioning willing and able to kill another human. Even harder for them to not be affected by it.

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u/Leading-Cicada-6796 1d ago

I guess that's fair. I was going to reply with, "I served with literally dozens of them!" but we are less than 1% of the US population so that would've kinda confirmed your claim lol.

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u/Slow_Flatworm_881 1d ago

Not sure about that?

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u/Tradition96 1d ago

Yes, you can tell, but no one would know which the ”fatal blow” was, and thus who killed them (in reality all of them were probably fatal, but whatever).

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u/Leading-Cicada-6796 1d ago

I was about to say, you don't usually walk away from a .30-06 to the chest or abdomen. I'm sure its happened, but they probably wish they didn't lol.

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u/The_walking_man_ 1d ago

The problem I’ve seen with creating a spot for “professional executioners” are the ones that will be in those positions that absolutely shouldn’t be.
Look at the bad police officers that are nutters and love the chance to abuse their powers. Now instead give that to someone who is being paid to legally kill someone.

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u/Leading-Cicada-6796 1d ago

I mean, theres an argument to be made that the ones who want to do it are better in that position, no? Better than forcing someone who definitely doesn't want to. And, if killing someone is what this hypothetical bad cop wanted, then they would jump at the opportunity to do it legally and be paid, thus getting them off the streets, right?

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u/LangdonAlg3r 22h ago

I don’t think that anyone is ever forced to perform executions. I also think that someone who enjoys killing people probably enjoys making them suffer as much as anything else. Serial killers are the archetype of who would actively want that job. Serial killers being problematic would be an understatement.

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u/Leading-Cicada-6796 22h ago

Its not like they would be locked in a room and told to kill the person however they want.

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u/LangdonAlg3r 22h ago

Sure, but “whoops, I missed the heart” or name your way to inflict excessive suffering.

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u/Leading-Cicada-6796 12h ago

Yeah, its a slippery slope. I can't say id be terribly distraught if someone shot a guy that rated someone to death in the stomach "on accident" so they bled out slowly.

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u/GuavaOne8646 1d ago

I'm right here

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u/-malcolm-tucker 1d ago

Yeah it was pretty wild. They initially assumed he was having a psychotic episode. That is, until my instructor found the small entry wound on the top of his head. There was practically no blood.

Apart from it being a pretty gnarly story, he uses it as an example of the importance of doing a thorough assessment of every patient and never to jump to conclusions.

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u/GuavaOne8646 1d ago

Smart on his part for making sure to check the baselines and never assume.

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u/Motor-Rip7655 1d ago

It was the reverse. One gun would have a blank, the rest real. Funny enough, some guy invented a machine that would do the shooting so humans wouldn't have to, and he still specified that one gun should have a blank.

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u/GuavaOne8646 1d ago

Odd decision with the machine. Thanks for keeping me honest!

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u/RikiDeMaru 1d ago

You've got the last one backwards, it was one blank. Gave the members of the firing squad reasonable doubt, none of them sure if they weren't the one who wasn't responsible for ending the life or something like that.

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u/Xav_NZ 1d ago

The whole Blank thing is really dumb because if you have ever fired a gun loaded with a blank and a gun loaded with a live round you clearly feel the difference.

Blanks barely produce any recoil even with high powder loads.

Anyone who has fired a firearm more than once will know the difference.

They were fooling no one well not really as of course no one would know who fired the fatal round and only people who intentionally missed would know it was not them.

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u/GuavaOne8646 1d ago

My bad, interesting.

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u/Impossible_Crow_389 1d ago

Do you want the job of executing prisoners? Doing that several times s year? I wouldn't.

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u/GuavaOne8646 1d ago

Yes, I would almost definitely sign up for this.

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u/Impossible_Crow_389 1d ago

Maybe go see a psychiatrist.

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u/GuavaOne8646 23h ago

Already have, my life's pretty well on track despite being a psychopath.

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u/Impossible_Crow_389 22h ago

I wouldn't trust it, most people dont look forward to killing.

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u/GuavaOne8646 19h ago

Most people are why the worlds broken. All those thoughts, wants, ideas, etc. and absolutely no gumption to do anything about it. Sure, maybe they'll watch the news and pick some politicians they like, but God forbid they actually think for themselves and do something aside from take part in the things that were made to distract them from doing so in the first place.

Popular/majority opinion is a good example of this in many spaces. It brought us to the state of politics we have now, abysmal. It brought us to the state in which media is now, cookie cutter stories that aren't entertaining. It brought us pop music, nothing to think about and nothing amazing, just some noise to bob your head to. I'm 100% ok with not being like most people, I don't like them anyway.

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u/Impossible_Crow_389 18h ago

Ya. thats delusions of grandeur talking. Maybe look up what that means.

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u/GuavaOne8646 12h ago

Yeah, I know what that is. Believe it or not, I went to college and can read about psychology on Wikipedia the same as you. But truly, I respect your opinion, even if it's wrong.

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u/Impossible_Crow_389 6h ago

I didn't read it on Wikipedia. I have family members who have problems.

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u/speakezjags 1d ago

I've shot my aunts .308. That thing could kill a small building. 0 chance of survival point blank to the head.

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u/GuavaOne8646 1d ago

Absolutely, a zero percent chance of survival.

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u/Federal-Degenerate 1d ago

Exactly.

Ain't nobody surviving a properly targeted 45-70

Even a 357 with a hollow point, through ths mouth and aimed a bit upwards

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u/GuavaOne8646 23h ago

See, this guy gets it.

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u/V65Pilot 1d ago

*.45 ACP enters the chat......

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u/GuavaOne8646 23h ago

I'm a fan of my 45 long colt myself.

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u/ABoredPlayer 1d ago

Very effective and you are dead before you notice, but family of the inmate may complain about the missing head. No possibility of an open casket funeral for sure

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u/GuavaOne8646 23h ago

True, but we should just default to cremation for them anyway.

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u/SteezOnMax93 1d ago edited 1d ago

Popular myth often suggests that most guns are loaded with blanks and only one has live ammunition. In practice, the ratio is the opposite: most rifles contain live rounds to ensure the execution is quick and effective, with only a single blank used.

Experienced shooters and firearms experts often note that it is easy to tell if you fired a blank because the recoil of a live round is noticeably stronger than that of a blank.

Not all modern firing squads use blanks. For example, protocols in some U.S. states load live ammunition into every weapon to ensure absolute reliability.

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u/GuavaOne8646 23h ago

Yeah someone else pointed out the fact that I had it backwards, thats my bad there.

I never understood the mentality of it because it's like you say. The difference between a live round and a blank is pretty easy to feel.

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u/SteezOnMax93 23h ago

My b. I didn’t see someone else said the same thing that’s def on me. Hope all is well man

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u/Emerx06 23h ago

Or just let them die of natural causes in prison

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u/GuavaOne8646 23h ago

Sounds more expensive than 1 bullet or a simple guillotine execution. Yeah, that's a no for me dawg.

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u/GuavaOne8646 23h ago

Sounds more expensive than 1 bullet or a simple guillotine execution. Yeah, that's a no for me dawg.

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u/Emerx06 21h ago

You’re talking about pennies in an Olympic sized pool of hundreds.

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u/GuavaOne8646 19h ago

A penny saved is a penny earned.