US inmate Christa Pike says she woke up 'confused and in pain' after failed execution
Summary
Tennessee death-row inmate Christa Pike said she remains in physical and emotional pain after surviving a failed lethal-injection execution in September. The 50-year-old was released from hospital last month and returned to prison, where she is serving a sentence for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer.Key Facts
- Pike released her first public statement about the failed execution on Friday.
- She said she has ongoing pain in her arms, hands and throat and still struggles to speak.
- Pike survived two injections of the drug pentobarbital and was left in critical condition.
- Her lawyers said she developed pneumonia, had significant swelling in her arms and could not swallow.
- Pike was discharged from hospital at the end of September and returned to prison.
- Pike was 18 when she and her boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995.
- Shipp avoided the death penalty because he was not legally an adult at the time of the crime and remains in prison.
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