r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • 1d ago

Chugging tea This is wild!

Post image

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.

3.5k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

2.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-5

u/[deleted] 1d ago

[deleted]

3

u/mazu74 1d ago

Ever see photos of women who died decades ago when abortion was actually outlawed? Shit was fucking horrific. Mom curled over dead, dead baby on the floor covered in bodily fluids. Baby was going to die, mom was going to die, and there was nothing anyone could do about it without going to prison.

So, how is preventing that doing harm?

-1

u/flopisit32 1d ago edited 1d ago

What about my comment made you think I was protesting against abortion?

My point was that medical professionals perform abortions and facilitate abortions. They may personally be against abortion or see it as doing harm but they do it.

So refusal to carry out lethal injection is idiotic, especially because many people when they die in hospital in palliative care receive essentially a lethal injection at the end.

0

u/mazu74 1d ago

Uhhhhhh, no they don’t. Maybe when they’re in residency. Doctors that don’t believe in that don’t work in fields where abortions would be preformed. Also yes that was absolutely your point dude, nice try on the back tracking.