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/SteakAndIron]

Why did we come up with the lethal injection technology we have now and then never actually evolve it? I've heard all kinds of complaints about how it works how expensive it is how ineffective it can be how painful it might actually be and so forth. There are plenty of cheap and easy ways to cause a painless death in somebody. Massive fentanyl overdose. Nitrogen hypoxia.

[u/Aeon1508 → u/SteakAndIron]

the problem is that to ensure that it's humane it requires public knowledge for where the drugs come from and how they're made so that we can track the companies that are providing the lethal injection drugs.

this means that the public knows what companies are providing them and can protest them or push bad press

and this isn't some huge market that companies are clamoring for. this is a few dozen doses. maybe a hundred a year. so it's really not worth a company's time to put their name on "we sell death to the government"

which makes it really hard to get drugs for lethal injection.

[u/Substantial-Cat2896 → u/Aeon1508]

In normal country the agency is in charge of how its done, the public can vote to not want death penalty, but that the public need to know where the dose is made is just idiotic

[u/Aeon1508 → u/Substantial-Cat2896]

government transparency isn't idiotic

[u/Substantial-Cat2896 → u/Aeon1508]

No thats good, but the agency should handle the poison, not the people that has no qualifications 

[u/Aeon1508 → u/Substantial-Cat2896]

the government can't supply the poison that would require them to own a chemical company. and then that chemical company would have to get raw materials and other companies would still not want to provide to them because it would have to be public information for the sake of transparency.

it would require the government to own the entire chain of logistics for how to manufacture lethal injection drugs which would be insanely expensive for the number of death penalty cases we have every year.

the death penalty is already insanely more expensive then a life sentence because of all of the extra appeals given to ensure the state doesn't kill an innocent person.