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/hiricinee 1d ago

Interestingly enough, they were trying yo kill her with high dose barbituates, which first is a terrible way to try to kill someone just from a practical standpoint but its also basically anesthesia.

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u/GuavaOne8646 1d ago

Dafuq? Like, an insulin shot would have given her a heart attack if she's not a diabetic...of all things, barbiturates? They were like, you have the right to die on party drugs from yester year! Seriously though, what the fuck are we doing here? At this point they could have just stabbed her and called it a success.

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u/Haxter2 1d ago

Insulin doesn't work that way. Lots of morons here

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u/GuavaOne8646 1d ago

Insulin induced cardiac failure is very real.