Christa Pike botched execution.

Whatever happened to cyanide capsules? General Erwin "Desert Fox" Rommel used one to commit suicide in 1944, likewise Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Goering after World War 2 ended. It is my understanding that they caused almost instant death. How about the suicide pill that airman Francis Gary Powers was carrying when his U-2 spy plane was shot down over Russia in 1960? (He survived and didn't use it - I don't have any problem with that, he was a great American hero and deserved to keep on living). Maybe someone can put the Tennessee prison officials in touch with experts who are familiar with this technology.

In Canada, the world leader in assisted suicide, they use pentobarbitol, which is what they used in Tennessee, too. Maybe they didn't get the dosage right.
 
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Whatever happened to cyanide capsules? General Erwin "Desert Fox" Rommel used one to commit suicide in 1944, likewise Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Goering after World War 2 ended. It is my understanding that they caused almost instant death. How about the suicide pill that airman Francis Gary Powers was carrying when his U-2 spy plane was shot down over Russia in 1960? (He survived and didn't use it - I don't have any problem with that, he was a great American hero and deserved to keep on living). Maybe someone can put the Tennessee prison officials in touch with experts who are familiar with this technology.

In Canada, the world leader in assisted suicide, they use pentobarbitol, which is what they used in Tennessee, too. Maybe they didn't get the dosage right.
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Dosage is determined by body weight. Seems a little risky to me. I'd rather be shot down like Billy the Kid.
 
"Along with South Carolina, Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah authorize the firing squad as a method of execution."
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Map shows US states allowing firing squad executions

South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon by firing squad on March 7, marking its first use of the execution method.
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Use of firing squads for executions in Utah and Idaho may reflect the influence in those states of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (the Morons) who believe in "blood atonement" - in order for one's sins to be forgiven, his or her blood must be shed.

Tennessee statute may perhaps be interpreted to allow for a firing squad: "If both lethal injection and electrocution is held to be unconstitutional, then 'any constitutional method of execution' will be used. (Tenn. Code Ann. § 40 – 23-114)"
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Colorado abolished the death penalty prospectively on March 23, 2020, and those on death row at that time had their sentences commuted. In 2016, the…
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Execution by firing squad is constitutional - the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in its favor in 1878, and the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled likewise in 2024.
 
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Prison Officials Unsure How To Execute Woman On Ventilator That Is Plugged Into The Wall​


After surviving two botched lethal injections, convicted murderer Christa Pike is now in critical condition and is solely being kept alive by a machine that breathes for her, which is powered by a standard 120-volt power outlet in the wall. Prison officials, who ordered the medical interventions that are keeping her alive, are baffled as to how they could execute the vulnerable death row inmate now.

"That machine appears to be breathing for her and preventing her court-ordered death," says Warden Bill Myles Lee. "We're analyzing the situation and trying to figure out the best way to proceed. It's quite the conundrum."
U.S.·Oct 5, 2026 · BabylonBee.com
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