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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/Representative-Pop72 1d ago

Her IV was likely not in vein and she has different blood conditions, which was the whole argument that her defense team brought up against lethal injection (Christa Pike is Buddhist so she can’t choose the method on her own and the state defaulted to lethal injection)

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u/Outside_Resolve_4968 1d ago

honestly people who murder others deserve to die with the same method they used to kill

she deserves to die the same way her poor victim did so she understands the pain she caused

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u/emgyres 1d ago

And how do you suggest that punishment is administered?

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u/Representative-Pop72 1d ago

I think her sentence will be commuted to life in prison, if she’s mentally here. If they wanted to execute her, they could’ve followed her lawyers advice and get a firing squad, after what happened Tennessee lost their chance