Pike’s lawyers said she is back in same prison she’s lived in for last 30 years and will continue to receive medical care
Christa Pike has been discharged from the hospital after surviving Tennessee’s botched 30 September attempt to execute her by lethal injection and is back in prison, her lawyers said on Saturday.
Saturday’s update about Pike came 10 days after the death row prisoner was given two doses of pentobarbital, a lethal injection drug, in what proved to be a failed execution attempt. She was hospitalized after surviving the botched execution and was declared brain dead on Monday.
But in a shocking turnaround, on Thursday her lawyer said that she was “up and walking” – though she remained “somewhat foggy” and wasn’t able to use her arms very much.
Pike said that her arms were burning during the failed execution and asked if it was supposed to feel that way. Witnesses present in the chamber said that “nothing was normal” while officials have maintained that they followed every step of Tennessee’s approved execution protocol.
Replay the hits. Where will he pop up next? https://www.npr.org/2026/10/07/nx-s1-5991884/former-tennessee-prisons-chief-oversaw-botched-executions-arizona
Pike said that her arms were burning during the failed execution and asked if it was supposed to feel that way.
That’s a sign of the injection going a wrong way, namely somewhere else than the vein where it probably was supposed to be. Idk if it happens with just any intravenous injections, but I got exactly that feeling when mine didn’t go into the vein.
life imprisonment has a 100% success rate.
No one has ever survived.
That’s got to cost less for the taxpayers than the legal shitstorm that’s going to follow in the wake of this incident.
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Frank Morris, and John and Clarence Anglin would disagree. It’s so rare though, that your point stands.
The prison system is so rotten and corrupt to enrich the few and hurt many. The number of people in prison is deplorable and a sign that the system is rotten to have so many. We can see what helps people out of poverty and crimes and deaths of desperation, but do the opposite too often, so this is the result of that. Unhealthy systems produce unhealthy society and people. All this suffering to enrich industries related to prisons too, like all the concentration camps and supporting businesses in on the violent grift. This is the sickness of doubling down on unhealthy ways.
Doesn’t this reach the bar for cruel and unusual punishment?
That would be the entire US prison system.
Much of what I’ve read about the American prison system would qualify as cruel and unusual punishment. The same applies to the Canadian system more than I’d like to admit.
I think it’s reached the point in the USA where it’s most definitely cruel (which as always with conservatives, is the whole point), but can’t really be called unusual given that it’s become the norm in that miserable shithole.
But it says cruel and unusual, not cruel or unusual. So, if it is a usual punishment, it can be as cruel as you want.
Checkmate civilized world 😎.
And honestly, if it isn’t cruel, will the average American consider it a punishment at all?
“Once she’s healthy enough, we can execute her again!”
third times a charm.
They’ll probably live stream it too
Pay-per-view
With a state lottery to choose the psycho who’ll push the button…
Can’t be barbarians about, now can we?
If at any point she died and was brought back I foresee an interesting legal argument to her being set free.
I read that at some point in hospital she was declared brain dead, which surprised me, because normally that’s not a temporary condition, but in the BBC article they just say “Her legal team believed for days that she was brain dead and expected her to be taken off life support at any moment.”, which is not the same thing.
Not really. Despite the tails you hear about people saying they were dead and came back after seeing heaven, and saying stuff like they had a heart attack and died three times on the way to the hospital, those aren’t dead. Do you think any of those cases would be willing to send all their stuff off to whoever is inheriting it? The laws know this and the sentence is not going away on a gotcha. Otherwise people with life sentences or on death row would be trying to give themselves survivable heart attacks all the time. Not a fan of the justice system or the death penalty in general, but this lady is there for a good reason. It may functionally turn into a life sentence but they sure aren’t letting her go free.
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I’ve heard this is why death sentences state “hanged by the neck until dead.” Someone survived a hanging at one point and successfully argued that their sentence had been carried out, so they could not be hanged again. I read about it years ago, I don’t remember details. All this is to say she might not be able to make that point. Either way, you’re right. It’s gonna be interesting.
But can you legally die and then be revived? Like say someone’s heart stopped for 30 seconds and then they came back to?
The intersection of philosophy and law is always an interesting place to be.
IMHO (not a philosopher or a lawyer), law is a branch of applied moral philosophy.
If I remember correctly a guy tried to argue this in court a couple years ago after having a heart attack in jail and the judge ruled that since he was in court arguing his case he was still alive and the life sentence was still in effect.
Should have argued something about reincarnation and since he died it was now someone else.
Judges usually don’t like tricks like trying to argue a definition of death in which the person is alive afterward. It wouldn’t be accepted in the other direction either; an assailant whose victim is alive is not guilty of murder.
There are certainly legal arguments against trying to execute her again, but if one succeeds, the outcome will be life in prison, not release.
The intent of the death penalty is clear. I don’t think we’re gonna see any of this tv show type court stuff.
So, if a murderer survives we just let them go? That’s fucking stupid
Bullets are cheap, guillotine is cheap, hanging is cheap. I am pro death penalty. There are truly serious, vile, and wicked evil people in this world. Most of which the common person has no idea the atrocities people commit due to sheltering world views, news under reporting, evil doesn’t always get caught, insert reason here…
However. They absolutely should not have done it this way, it’s absolutely ridiculous. Lethal injection is not a good execution method. It costs so much money to execute someone, and for zero reason when other methods are cost effective and more efficient. Life in prison is a major cost year over year and should be used in limited circumstances. This lady has health reasons that were ill considered for the type of execution attempted. Overall just a terrible situation.
I am pro death penalty. There are truly serious, vile, and wicked evil people in this world.
And without realising it, you have exposed yourself as one of these people.
However, like them, you are not “vile and wicked evil”, you are broken. Some people are broken like that by biological defects, some by trauma, and some by slow development into a psychopath. Society needs to be protected from some of them, but we have no right to kill, because that would put us on the same level as you or the other psychopaths.
You shouldn’t have death row at all. There has been and will be even more innocent people getting wrongly executed. You cannot guarantee that every single person getting executed is guilty.
In this day and age of cameras everywhere and dna testing. Yes, you can 100% guarantee that some people have committed the crime. The problem become between ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ and 100%. Examples: Gary Ridgeway, Ted Bundy, Ed Gein. (But hey, according to you they might be innocent, let’s give them a standard of living better than the poor in our society)
Life in prison is cheaper then the death penalty by a wide margin owing to the numerous safeguards in place (e.g. mandatory appeals.) to ensure we murder folks who deserve it.
Beyond that, the death penalty doesn’t work as a crime deterrant, murder rates in death penalty states track higher then abolitionist ones.
Lastly, someone getting put to death gains minor celebrity during it, offering a perverse incentive to the especially vile, while life in jail is just quiet fading to nothing over time and maybe a paragraph after they die saying they’re dead. Certainly not the news cycle Pike has gotten.
I could see the death penalty in limited circumstances like the Nuremberg trials, but for someone like Pike, Charles Manson, or whoever? Let 'em rot.
Imagine how weird it must be to see your prison friend finally get shipped off to death row, have a sad goodbye, prepare yourself for life without her, and then she just casually walks back into prison.
I was thinking how weird it must have been to receive a lethal injection, black out, and then wake up somewhere. That must have been real mind-blowing for a moment.
not once by, twice.
But they knew it wouldn’t work she knew it wouldn’t work… everyone knew and they still tried it
TWICE
I don’t know how casual it was
And idk if she actually walked back in.
how can someone be declared brain dead and then wake up the next day with no mayor neurological damage?
were they trying to finish the job by disconnecting her from life support?were they trying to finish the job by disconnecting her from life support?
That’s what I was thinking as well. You don’t just miraculously wake up within a day from no brain activity measured. Someone intentionally manipulated a measurement or just skipped it.
It’s the US, how does someone who is brain dead still have their job on the senate?
Coasting on your accomplishments as a coach is one way.
That and being part of the Epstein Hellraiser cult.
were they trying to finish the job by disconnecting her from life support?
I’d imagine so, yes. Clean up the loose ends as it were. Trying, twice, to kill someone and having them still walking around is rather embarassing after all.
It’s the US. The only safe way to kill her is to send her into a child daycare or school and let the missiles do their job.
Probably the same docs who botched her execution declared her brain dead
“docs” prison system almost never use actual licensed professionals. nurses/docs arnt going to risk thier licensed being revoked, or the bad reputation they would get,.
The thing is that no doctors are involved in the executions. They take the Hippocratic Oath so they swear to not willingly do harm. The people doing these executions are usually prison staff that have no medical training.
The Hippocratic oath also includes a promise not to perform surgery, and to leave that to surgeons:
I will not use the knife, not even, verily, on sufferers from stone, but I will give place to such as are craftsmen therein.
Gets broken every day.
That’s the original ancient oath. There are modernised versions. As of 2018, all US medical school graduates made some form of public oath but none used the original Hippocratic Oath. A modified form or an oath unique to that school is often used.
they arnt risking thier licenses, or livelyhood too,.
The Hippocratic oath isn’t in any way binding or insurance companies would never be able to hire in house doctors.
It’s a guy named Vinny who dropped out of phlebotomy class, administering the frostbitten drugs kept in the back of the break room fridge in Snapple bottles, labeled “do NOt drINk”
They don’t need to take that oath anymore and haven’t for a long time.
However any medical people participating in executions would have their licences revoked.
There is also legal assisted suicide in Canada and parts of EU. I believe doctors are invilolved in that
I see an argument for that to be an act of compassion, not harm.
Yeah assisted suicide has specific requirements and is very much about compassion. Sort of similar to the way hospice care effectively denies medical intervention that could save someone’s life.
That exists in the US too.
MAHA.
Fucking barbarians
The US justice system is making me feel bad for a murderer. I’m not sure it’s what they’re trying to achieve, but it’s certainly an achievement.
I hardly care about her single murder when a girls’ school can be bombed and no one is held accountable. She was just barely an adult and all her time before that was a hellish childhood, there’s some understanding one could have for her, but the same nation can just murder little girls and no one is responsible. Let her go, kill the child killers and child rapers.
As much as I oppose capital punishment, if you guys have to do it, why not use something that’s a guaranteed kill? IDK, a super fast head crushing machine or something.
Of all the proven ways to end a life quickly and (for all we know) relatively painless that is what you came up with? 😅
Because the chemical execution method isn’t to ensure the swift, painless death of the accused, it’s to soothe the psyche of the executioner
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There’s exactly 0 reasons not to use nitrogen for death penalty. Guaranteed death every time.
Or monoxide, what happened to carbon monoxide?
Isn’t that like drowning/suffocating? I was thinking instant death, be humain if you must kill someone.
This is what happens when you have death cult officials that are trying to bring about the end times.
Witnesses present in the chamber said that “nothing was normal”
As opposed to non-botched, routine state execution matinees they go to every Thursday.
“Normal”?
Nothing about this is normal, even if the woman had died in the expected manner.
Normal doesn’t mean right, it just means the same as usual, and they didn’t even hit that.
Thank you.
Do the witnesses spend a lot of their free time watching people get executed enough to have a frame of reference?
Yeah. One of the witnesses was a journalist who has attended hundreds of executions.
They would certainly have known what to expect.
True. Even if they don’t know the process, everyone would expect the same outcome. Though the wording makes it sound like they had an understanding of the process itself. I’m probably either reading it wrong or reading too much into it.
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