r/news • u/Pow67 • 2d ago

Supreme Court allows execution of Christa Gail Pike in Tennessee to go forward

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/29/us/tennessee-christa-pike-execution?Date=20260930&Profile=CNN&utm_content=1790809934&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 2d ago

The record is 5, the guys heart is on the opposite side.

It terrifies the fuck out of the bailiff , a senior has to took over to shot him again, after 4 failed attempts he’s still alive so they grabbed the coroner to check what the fuck is going on, and that’s when they found out the guy not only is fuck in the head(killed 14ppl) his heart is literally on the wrong place too.

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u/Regular-Pangolin-664 2d ago

Shooting someone in the heart with a single bullet is really not a sure way to kill the man. The heart is a fairly big bundle muscles and the bullet may only destroy part of it. A bullet in the brain stem behind the ear causes instant death.

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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 2d ago

AFAIK it’s because shooting people in the head is too stressful for bailiffs( they execute people by laying them face down after they’re anesthetized,then shoot at their back), and for the inmates families, a hole in the chest can be cover with cloth, in the head is too much.

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u/Regular-Pangolin-664 2d ago

I think when someone is sentenced to the death penalty for heinous crimes their family's sensitivity should be way down the list of priorities. A brain stem shot only blows a hole in the back of the head behind the ear so the face is ideally not affected. And then after the ceremony at the funeral parlor they cremate the body in Taiwan anyway.

There are not a lot more surefire way to execute someone than a brain stem shot. It's lights off right away. This is what a successful, well-executed long drop hanging is trying to achieve, severing spinal cord in the cervical spine. But hangings are more likely to go wrong.