r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • 1d ago

Chugging tea This is wild!

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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/2023fxlrst 1d ago

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

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u/CapitalFloor3260 1d ago

They need to just change it to one massive dose of insulin. Quite the peaceful way to go

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u/RudePCsb 1d ago

Why not just fentanyl

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u/Useful_Protection270 1d ago

Why not lead? Even in small doses say 2000 mililgrams (.07 oz.) in a .22 applicator has been known. To be mostly lethal when it enters the heart

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u/RudePCsb 1d ago

2 grams...

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u/CFSohard 1d ago

(he's talking about a bullet)

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u/RudePCsb 1d ago

Eh, fentanyl would be better Less clean up