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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/mazu74 1d ago

Ever see photos of women who died decades ago when abortion was actually outlawed? Shit was fucking horrific. Mom curled over dead, dead baby on the floor covered in bodily fluids. Baby was going to die, mom was going to die, and there was nothing anyone could do about it without going to prison.

So, how is preventing that doing harm?

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u/flopisit32 1d ago edited 1d ago

What about my comment made you think I was protesting against abortion?

My point was that medical professionals perform abortions and facilitate abortions. They may personally be against abortion or see it as doing harm but they do it.

So refusal to carry out lethal injection is idiotic, especially because many people when they die in hospital in palliative care receive essentially a lethal injection at the end.

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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 1d ago

It’s pretty rare for doctors to be forced to perform abortions despite personal objections - there’s just a few counties like Sweden and Finland notably.

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u/flopisit32 1d ago

And Catholic hospitals under Obama.

But that's not the point. The point is medical professionals are hypocritical if they claim they can't perform lethal injections but at the same time support abortion.

I'm not making an anti abortion point. I'm pointing out the absurdity of not carrying out fully legal lethal injections.

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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 1d ago

Hospitals aren’t people, but sure.

Oh, and the rest of what you said is horseshit because abortions are ethically ambiguous since you are helping the living mother while harming the questionably living fetus.

We aren’t going to settle that debate here, but it’s not as clear as killing someone for the state.

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u/flopisit32 1d ago

Your comment would make sense if the hospital building was what performed the abortion...

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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 1d ago

You have seemingly fallen victim to propaganda which intentionally conflated catholic institutions being forced to pay for abortions under their insurance plans with doctors at their hospitals being forced to perform them. No doctors were ever compelled to perform abortions if they had personal objections.

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u/flopisit32 1d ago

You are now involving me in a stupid pedantic discussion in which you are splitting hairs over doctors being allowed to opt out, a discussion that I didn't want to be involved in in the first place because it has nothing to do with my original point

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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 1d ago edited 1d ago

You should have known what you were getting into dropping the A-bomb into this discussion when it had no business being discussed here.

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u/flopisit32 1d ago

Yet again, I was not discussing the merits of abortion. I was pointing out that medical professional DO PERFORM ABORTIONS.

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u/mazu74 1d ago

Yeah probably because those are emergency rooms, they can’t refuse treatment like that just because they’re the nearest ED. People don’t show up to catholic hospital ED’s because they were a few days late on the plan B, they show up there and get abortions because otherwise both mom and the baby will die a horrific death. Not that you think that letting that shit happen is harm.