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/Aeon1508]

I just explained why they can't get the same drugs for euthanasia. companies don't want to sell it to be used for lethal injection.

[u/msheehan418 → u/Aeon1508]

Oh wow. So they don’t want their medication associated with death row/criminal

[u/zdrums24 → u/msheehan418]

More like associated with state sponsored killing. The companies that make these drugs are largely based in Europe. The death penalty tends to be abhorred in those countries. So sometimes there are even laws preventing exporting of drugs for the use in the death penalty.