This fiasco has been nothing but cruel and unusual punishment over and over again for this woman for a matter that should have been settled 30 years ago. Southern states make me sick - led by the "party of life" my ass. They don't give a single shit about "life" once that person is born.

Every single thing about her case from the time of her arrest until now has been a complete fustercluck, it's no surprise the execution didn't work.

She literally told them, her lawyers literally told them, that she has a medical condition that will prevent the lethal injection drugs from working, but they're so hell bent on murdering her that they could not just let her spend her life in prison. Yes, she brutally killed that girl, but the other two people who also brutally murdered that girl got life in prison for one, AND PAROLE for the other.

I'm not suggesting she's innocent. She's not. But why does every court have such a hard on for killing the woman? Abolish the death penalty, and do not give the state the right to kill it's citizens. Please.

Jesus fucking Christ this is a country of sociopaths.

State sanctioned murder is the most fucked up thing, except for state-sanctioned torture followed by murder.

This country is an extremely dangerous combination of cruel and stupid.

So killing her doesn’t work, they bring an ambulance, take her to the hospital, let her go back to prison for a year and wait for them to try again?

You'd think there'd be a sort of double-jeopardy thing in relation to lethal injections.

Something like the old Western movie trope of how you can't be hanged twice.

Sounds like cruel and unusual punishment to me

Just a reminder that Tennessee has botched so much of this case for decades. There's no doubt that this woman is guilty, but for fuck's sake, look at this from Wikipedia:

Slemmer's mother repeatedly asked Tennessee authorities to return the fragment of skull for proper burial, but it remained in the state's possession as evidence. Authorities stated it would not be returned while the case remained open, awaiting Pike's execution. In a documentary that premiered September 2026 ahead of Pike's potential execution, Dead Woman Walking: Pike vs. Tennessee, Slemmer's mother, May Martinez, confirmed that after 16 years of fighting and writing letters, she had received the skull from the state of Tennessee but has still not received "the last piece of her daughter’s skull."

Yeah, that's right, the State of Tennessee still has a piece of the victim's skull and refuses to give it back to the family. The people who tell you that this was satanic are keeping a piece of the victim's body as a trophy. Sounds like they would know...

I think that should count.

I mean is it really more humane than a guillotine or are we just doing lethal injections to make those witnessing it feel more comfortable?

As long as it's built properly a guillotine is pretty effective the first go around.

I’ve been hearing for years that it’s very hard for the government to find qualified doctors who will work with them on this technology or help administer it, and that makes it extremely hard to carry out reliably. This is far from an isolated incident.

Why does the article repeatedly call them 'lethal injections'. They were not.

charly kirk only took one lethal injection and died. What a loser.

It’s all murder

How sick is this?

We live in a clown state

The problem with lethal injection is that its a medical procedure requiring precision and specific, expensive drugs that...prison systems don't want to use either of

There's a reason that old timey sentences were "hanged by the neck until dead".

I imagine, without any evidence, that the contemporary legislation is so poorly worded that having been administered the "lethal injection chemicals" is all that the legislation requires.

Aside; bizarrely extra judicial execution by gun shot by cop is OK but not as a court's sentence?

"But your honor the sentence has indeed been carried out and state has no further business with client, I expect their release tomorrow "

What a clusterfuck of a life.

This feels like a "ball don't lie" situation.

Or, since the religious conservatives who love life also really like killing people, this is like God ordering a stay of execution.

MAGAts can't even kill people right. What morons.

You think when she woke up the second time that she said "third times the charm?".