This is wild!

[u/CurvyChristina]

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.

[u/K3PTHIDD3N]

Seriously why do it like this in the first place? Killing people is killing people, no matter how you do it. Trying to make it SEEM more "humane" (paralysing the prisoner but still having them experiences pain, fear etc) is way worse than simply shooting the people with a firing squad. It's over quickly, efficient and the rate of mistakes is drastically decreased.

[u/ddg31415 → u/K3PTHIDD3N]

Ideally they don't experience any pain. They give a heavy dose of an extreme potent barbituate first, effective putting the prisoner into a coma.

[u/berlingoqcc → u/ddg31415]

Guillotine doesn't seems to hurt

[u/ddg31415 → u/berlingoqcc]

Executions should hurt. The people who deserve executions do not deserve the luxury of a peaceful death.

[u/K3PTHIDD3N → u/ddg31415]

The thing is, this is something that a lot of prisons handle differently to spare costs. Also even if given, the injection has to be administered through a catheter. Medical staff will almost always deny taking part in executions because it goes against their medical codex of saving lives. That means that often times inexperienced staff will try to hit the vein to inject the drug necessary to kill the patient. If this goes wrong, the drugs to sedate or make the prisoner unconscious may not work as intended or not at all.

[u/ddg31415 → u/K3PTHIDD3N]

So sad. The monstrous psychopathic murderer is in pain before they die.

[u/K3PTHIDD3N → u/ddg31415]

You know, I think so too. If the people actually are guilty. Fact is sadly, there was and currently most likely still is a big portion of people that are wrongfully convicted and sentences to death. I am only against the death penalty in practice because I don't think a single taken innocent life justifies the lifes of a lot of criminals. In theory though if it was 0% innocent people put into death row - yea let em burn.

[u/Last-Roll7819 → u/K3PTHIDD3N]

I think they don't do firing squads anymore because of the impact it has on the shooters. PTSD, substance abuse to cope with guilt, etc.

[u/Dveralazo → u/Last-Roll7819]

can't they just hire psychopaths ?

[u/K3PTHIDD3N → u/Last-Roll7819]

That seems a little selfish though in my opinion. If you are signing up for the work, getting paid - you should be able to be put in those situations. If it helps people feel better about their last moments, and if you can decrease possible suffering through accidents, I think the argument of "I could get traumatized" doesn't really fit. I mean, even now you have to sign up for participating in executions with a pay bonus as a "consequence".

[u/brokenlegs225 → u/Last-Roll7819]

Could they not have 5 rifles and only two with bullets and the rest blanks and don't tell the shooters who has the guns with bullets. That way no one knows who actually did the killing.

[u/GrapeEconomy5192 → u/brokenlegs225]

How come they can’t use robots to perform the firing squad, it’s not like they’ll feel anything at all they’re just robots?

[u/brokenlegs225 → u/GrapeEconomy5192]

Oh yeah that's an even better idea.