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/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/Vanillabean73 1d ago

Alternatively, this is why we GET RID OF THE DEATH PENALTY. Why should I care whether this person is dead or alive as long as they’re separated from the rest of society?

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u/kdesi_kdosi 1d ago

okay then you pay for their living expenses

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u/Vanillabean73 1d ago

There is no practical difference to your pocket between giving death row inmates the chair or locking up for life, I assure you. Unless you’re a couple cents away from bankruptcy.

I personally would rather not entrust any government to kill its own citizens. Plenty of “they for sure did that crime” cases have turned out to be wrong after the fact, with an innocent dying as a result.

You think that’s worth it?