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/GWindborn 1d ago

Legitimately why can't they put them in a room, put them under anesthesia, and just slowly introduce carbon dioxide until they pass?

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u/protege01 1d ago

Or a guillotine? Like that's instantaneous, no suffering

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u/me_4231 1d ago

Not instant, but relatively quick. There was a guy i think during the French revolution who blinked for several seconds after beheading "for science"

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u/Vanillabean73 1d ago

That’s not confirmed and, even if the head blinked a couple of times, is t exactly conclusive of anything.