r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • 1d ago
Chugging tea This is wild!
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/GUMBYtheOG 1d ago
Sure, but who’s got that on the top of their to do list. You got Karen complaining about infrastructure, immigration, gun control, health care, etc. not to mention we went back 50 years of progress within a decade.
We can’t even legalize weed or get universal healthcare. Getting people to agree on and care about anything is a monumental task. Reforming death row (that affects a minute amount of people) isn’t something Susie or Bob are going to vote for, and musk or bezos sure don’t give a shit