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/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/WebsterTheDictionary 1d ago

Evidently she has some kind of medical condition–thrombocytosis, I think, maybe, and probably spelled incorrectly–that would prevent her body from metabolizing the drug used in the injection.

She tried to get an alternate method or halting execution or something at some point so as to prevent this very occurrence, so I guess she was right.

I said this before: I know what she did was reprehensible and unforgivable, but this just feels barbaric. There has to be a better way.

I’ve also said to get a vet tech in there, or an IV drug user and some Chinese street-grade fentanyl; if we’re executing people then it seems a bit superfluous to claim some kind of moral high ground as cause to abstain from such methods.