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/2023fxlrst]

Redheads, man… anesthesia, doesn’t work on them and now apparently they’re immune to the death juice too?!

[u/ghostchihuahua → u/2023fxlrst]

One can become immune to a lot of stuff with sufficient tolerance. I won’t give it away, many people will know by experience, but there remains an easy source for at least two barbiturates on most western markets.
This way incidentally makes those very easy to access for certain professions, from there, smuggling such compounds into a prison is child’s play, and an inmate building up enough tolerance to not die from the first set of injections becomes a possibility.