@cbsnews: Witnesses say Christa Pike remained alive and breathing after Tennessee officials administered two rounds of pentobarbital during an attempt to execute her Wednesday. Pike, 50, was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, committed when Pike was 18. She would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years. “I’ve witnessed, I believe, five executions in Tennessee, "said WKRN reporter Tori Gessner, who witnessed the proceedings. "Nothing about today was normal, typical, at all."
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Thursday 01 October 2026 17:24:40 GMT
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user3585836854001 :
It’s not snoring, it’s atonal breathing!
2026-10-01 22:01:24
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idontsayblahblahblah12 :
Agonal breathing is so scary.
2026-10-03 14:18:02
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La Ch@nty :
NOBODY IS ALLOW TO TAKE NOBODIES LIFES ONLY THE LORD
2026-10-01 18:42:04
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Zaya 💋 :
If she can’t die what does that mean? 😭
2026-10-01 20:09:26
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JasonReed :
this is exactly what she was scared of. she said she had small veins and they wouldn't get it.
2026-10-01 18:43:57
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me if I was the doctor
2026-10-01 23:37:16
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April Randall :
This is so inhumane and sad.
2026-10-01 19:06:54
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Dez⭐️ :
Sounds demonic
2026-10-01 21:04:29
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OmniPresence :
That is experimental torture and the state should be sued
2026-10-01 21:01:27
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coltdrew.12 :
They gonna make a horror film about this in like 10 years
2026-10-01 20:26:24
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deftonesenjoyer213 :
telling her to relax is diabolical
2026-10-02 01:13:50
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Matthew McNeal :
How everyone looked at each other when it didn’t work the second time
2026-10-02 04:32:09
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( ๑˃̶ ꇴ ˂̶) :
how is that even possible
2026-10-01 17:30:19
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LOLA 💙🌻🇯🇲 :
Coming from a daughter of an RN I promise you somebody improperly placed the IV she didn’t get the full dose, it’s happened before. so it hit her tissues not her veins that explains the burning 💔
2026-10-01 23:42:16
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STARSITA :
They didn’t have to tell us this I’m sad 💔
2026-10-01 19:25:56
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(人◕‿◕) 𝕊𝕥𝕖𝕧𝕖 𝟚.𝟘 🇻🇦 :
as a Christian this is very difficult for me I know I should be against the death penalty but I'm conflicted
2026-10-01 20:26:39
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Lady Love❌ :
I’m not saying what they did was right, because taking someone’s life is wrong, period. And yes, there should be consequences and accountability. But what I am saying is, we can’t say killing is wrong and then turn around and celebrate when another life is taken.
The Word says, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” — Romans 12:19. And Ezekiel 33:11 tells us that God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked.
We can want justice for the victim and their family without having revenge in our hearts. Justice calls for accountability; revenge desires another person’s suffering. There is a difference.
At the end of the day, God is the ultimate Judge, and He gets the final say. 🙏🏽
2026-10-02 10:53:41
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𝒦𝒶𝓉𝓎 :
The movies are writing themselves
2026-10-02 22:38:09
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woahayannaaa :
evil don’t die…
2026-10-02 01:41:51
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Vicil :
They hemorrhaged her vein and I bet it didn’t go in her vein all at once she def got high but who knows. The pressure on the arm can only mean it was pooling in her arm like what happens when you get a iv or plasma donated
2026-10-01 22:41:01
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blackskies6 :
It’s called the death rattle
2026-10-01 18:28:13
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Nelley laxxx :
Genuine question, why do people go watch executions ?
2026-10-03 02:04:08
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Babyface :
Nah this unethical
2026-10-01 20:32:16
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big mama :
shes a redhead and theres statistics about how its harder to put them under anesthesia
2026-10-02 19:44:43
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Ashes💕 :
So inhuman that we do this to humans STOP death penalty it’s wrong! A life for a life give no justice
2026-10-01 23:38:13
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