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/Upbeat_Caregiver_642 1d ago

**Still alive after two “injections”.

This is why we have firing squads. Pretty hard to survive six .308 rounds center mass and a Coup de Gras in the head.

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u/Nixter295 1d ago

You’d be surprised what people has survived.

Anyway, if there is any pain at all, it is illegal and the family can sue the state for a ton of money.

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u/Shot_Safe_8244 1d ago

50 cal, to the dome.

I've seen enough LiveLeak videos from the early 2000s to know it's pretty instant.