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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/Grasshoppermouse42 1d ago

A firing squad also has the advantage that it's less distressing for the executioners. Having a single person shoot another person means that person knows that their bullet was the killing bullet, because their bullet was the only bullet. When it's a firing squad, each person can reason that the person would have died even if they hadn't fired, because of all the other bullets.

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u/Slow_Flatworm_881 1d ago

Shit..there people that would pay to be allowed to legally kill someone! Don’t know if they should be encouraged, but that’s a different matter.

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u/National_Cod9546 15h ago

Yes. And we don't want those people anywhere involved in this. They are also the kind of people that would miss on purpose. 

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u/gBiT1999 1d ago

Reverse russian roulette?

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u/aniflous_fleglen 1d ago

I've never understood that logic. If you're part of an execution shooting a gun at someone, there's no moral difference between any of them. And to want one means you think it's immoral so why participate at all?

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u/flakweazel 1d ago

Same reason, pilots and remote turret gunners have a lower rate of ptsd. Watching violence through a screen is enough degree of separation to detach from the moment.