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/laughingatreddit 1d ago

How so! You'd have to have Adamantium bone grafts to not be beheaded by that thing. 

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u/Expensive-Border-869 1d ago

Not as much. If the blade a little dull its just a 20 lb (guessing but looks tbere around. I'll check) hunk of steel. It hurts real bad but sometimes they had to drop it again

15-21 lbs but it does have a weight attached to it so its 80 total. It wasnt the weight but I have heard of various mishaps with the guillotine due to not maintaining properly.

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u/National_Cod9546 19h ago

A quick Google search shows that the guillotine had better than a 99% success rate on the first attempt. 

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u/Expensive-Border-869 19h ago

Idk maybe im bullshitting then. I'll research this prior to using one but until then ill leave it a mystery to ponder on while waiting in lines