Christa Pike says she feels constant pain in first public statement since failed execution
Summary
Christa Pike said she remains in constant physical and emotional pain a month after surviving a failed lethal injection in Tennessee. She said she is trying to heal and thanked medical workers and others who supported her.Key Facts
- Pike made her first public statement since surviving the execution attempt on Sept. 30.
- Tennessee tried to execute Pike with two doses of pentobarbital for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.
- Pike said she has pain throughout her body and still struggles to speak.
- Her lawyers said the failed injection left her arms burned and blistered; she was unconscious and on a ventilator for several days.
- Experts have examined whether a problem with the IV line caused the drug to enter tissue instead of her bloodstream.
- Gov. Bill Lee ordered an investigation and postponed Tennessee’s other lethal injection scheduled for this year.
- Tennessee’s prison chief resigned after the failed execution.
- Pike’s lawyers have asked Lee to reduce her sentence to life imprisonment; Lee said the sentence would likely remain unchanged unless the courts decide otherwise.
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