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Posted on 10/05/2026 7:25:53 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Tennessee didn't just fail to execute Christa Pike, argues anesthesiologist and intensive care doctor Joel Zivot in a New York Times opinion piece—it exposed what lethal injection really is. Zivot, hired as a medical expert by Pike's legal team, says he warned that her small veins and medical history made a botched execution more likely. On Wednesday, pentobarbital was injected into her veins; when the first dose didn't stop her heart, a second was given. Her arms turned purple, her lawyers say, and she reported extreme pain before an ambulance was finally called more than an hour after the process began. "In a matter of hours," Zivot writes, "she had gone from a prisoner the state was trying to kill to a patient doctors were trying to save."
Pike is now in an intensive care unit, unconscious, and on a ventilator, with doctors treating what they would describe as a poisoning. Zivot argues that lethal injection is a staged imitation of medicine that reliably risks pain and respiratory distress, citing autopsies showing fluid-filled lungs and prior botched Tennessee executions. "Gov. Bill Lee has said that as far as he knows, the Department of Correction followed its protocol exactly," writes Zivot. "I take him at his word. That is the problem. Lethal injection failures are not glitches; they are features of the process." If Pike survives, he notes, physicians "will hand her back to the state that may try to kill her again." For Zivot's full argument, read the piece in the New York Times.
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WOW. A soy-boy cuck TOLD us.
Big whoop.
Should have used the electric chair as when she was first sentenced to death. But nooooo! Got to be more humane. Put the criminals to sleep like our beloved pets.
Obviously they gave too little. Surprised there is no investigation into whoever prepared the dose. Too bad they waited so long to try and bring justice to the murderer. Execution ain’t a fun thing to contemplate and carry out and should never be flippantly applied, but the 19 year old victim, Colleen Slemmer, was tortured, carved up, and had her skull broken. No one knows what kind of pain, fear, and mental anguish she went through during her being murdered. A heinous, cruel crime. Bad things all around.
But, they had an all-female execution squad. So I’m surprised it didn’t go perfectly
The only good interpretation of this is from Tim Dillon 3 Oct show #515
“….she reported extreme pain….”
I understand her victim mentioned extreme pain as she was pummeled for an hour before Pike squashed her skull with a lump of pavement then taking a piece of the skull for a souvenir.
Simultaneous lead injection works.
I heard this was the doctor’s second botched attempt.
I heard this was the doctor’s second botched attempt.
Lethal injection is not difficult. A $12 bottle of regular insulin will do the job expeditiously.
Odd. My vets have never had a problem putting my dogs down. But since she’s unconscious, how about we send someone with a 12 gauge…
She would have been dismayed to see ME standing next to the gurney...
You did WHAT to your victim?
so will a 98 cent bottle of potassium chloride.
Severing the head from the body works every time.
“says he warned that her small veins and medical history made a botched execution more likely.”
In EMS when time is short, the patient is critical and you can’t find any usable veins, there is always the jugular (EJ Extra Jugular) that is pretty easy to hit unless the patient is quite obese. It’s big and leads directly to the heart.
Just scale it up a bit.
That is what these perps did to their victims. The victims didn't have blame or a choice.
Such a death should happen three-fold over to these people, but the first will have to suffice.
It's not cruel or unusual punishment, because the killers thought it was perfectly fine to voluntarily administer such a torturous death to an innocent.
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