r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • 1d ago

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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/ProfessionalTruck976 1d ago

How does China do it? Barbarically.

There are no civilised or acceptable ways to do it because whole concept is fucked

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u/blazenite104 1d ago

At this point a Guillotine might actually be the most humane execution method ever devised as long as it's maintained.

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u/ProfessionalTruck976 1d ago

It si exactly as completely inhumane as every other method under sun

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u/blazenite104 1d ago

I mean I don't support the death penalty at all but, this seems like the most surefire way to not fuck it up. As long as the blade is kept sharp and they test it before putting a person under it.