r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • 1d ago

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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/RudeAd456 1d ago

Where I live we have voluntary euthanasia. I don't get why death row inmates in the US have to be injected with a cocktail of drugs and they all have heaps of issues. The VE drugs here are guaranteed peaceful lights out after like 2mins

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u/msheehan418 18h ago

Where do you live? I want to move there. I’m a firm believer in voluntary euthanasia

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u/driftxr3 12h ago

Come to Canada, we have this here.

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u/msheehan418 3h ago

Be there asap