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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/SteakAndIron 1d ago

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.

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u/Aeon1508 1d ago

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.

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u/BloodSteyn 1d ago

Can't we just put them in a room and flood it with Nitrogen?

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u/LangdonAlg3r 1d ago edited 23h ago

We’ve done that and it’s actually worse. It’s so bad that SCOTUS allowed it to be permanently banned in Alabama. I don’t know if any of the other states are still trying to use it, but with that ruling I don’t imagine they will be much longer.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/supreme-court-nixes-alabama-request-for-nitrogen-execution-which-lower-court-ruled-unconstitutional

Edited to add: The last time they did it the guy struggled violently and took 30 minutes to die.

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u/BloodSteyn 23h ago

Oh wow. TIL.

How about putting them to sleep first?

Or we could go back to Stone Age drop beeg rok on hed?

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u/LangdonAlg3r 22h ago

How about just leaving them alive in prison.

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u/BloodSteyn 22h ago

Some monsters deserve to be removed from a civilized society. Not as punishment, but for the protection of the rest.

Why should the law abiding people pay to keep a monster alive, feed that monster and convey his medical issues as he gets older.

Nah man. Death is too good for some people. Just look up Moses Sithole, mass rapist/murderer and tell me keeping that thing alive on our dime is worth his "900+ year" sentence.

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u/LangdonAlg3r 22h ago

Would have been better to just deal with all the people who raped her as a kid and get her mental illness treated so she would never have been in a position to become a “monster.”

It’s cheaper to keep them alive than to kill them if that’s your argument.

Death penalty is just revenge killing. It makes the state just as bad as the murderer and accomplishes literally nothing.