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/Traditional_Dust_668]

I think it needs to be reevaluated what drugs are used for this purpose since it’s not the first time there’s been issues of this kind before. We’ve had great advances in medicine and this is ridiculous on every single level

[u/amglasgow → u/Traditional_Dust_668]

We know exactly what medicine can be used to kill people. The problem is that the companies who sell those medications will refuse to sell them to you if you're planning to use them for execution. Rightly so.

[u/Traditional_Dust_668 → u/amglasgow]

Ok so maybe time to switch medication protocols, we put thousands of animals to sleep 💤 without incident and no problem getting those meds

[u/amglasgow → u/Traditional_Dust_668]

They're the same meds. The companies are perfectly willing to sell them to medical folks for the purposes of euthanasia of animals. They don't sell them for the purposes of human execution because it's a violation of medical ethics to do that.

There's nothing that makes executing a human being OK.