The 50-year-old survived two doses of pentobarbital as the state tried to execute her for the 1995 stabbing death of 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer.
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Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her by lethal injection a month ago, is speaking out for the first time. Pike, 50, was hospitalized after she survived two doses of pentobarbital as the state attempted to execute her on September 30 for the 1995 beating and stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer.
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Pike, 50, is being held in solitary confinement and faces an uncertain future after surviving a failed lethal injection.
Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her by lethal injection last month, is speaking out for the first time, saying she is recovering, “but healing is not the same as being okay.”
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A death row inmate at a Tennessee jail, Pike survived her execution in late September, saying she was prepared for death but woke up in a hospital bed.
The BBC's Ione Wells looks at what Pike says in her statement about surviving two lethal injection attempts.
Pike said she went into the execution chamber prepared to die in peace and woke up alone and confused in a hospital bed, and now lives in constant pain.
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Christa Pike is the only inmate to ever survive after being injected with lethal doses of execution drugs.
Pike said she went into the execution chamber prepared to die in peace and woke up alone and confused in a hospital bed, and now lives in constant pain.
It is Pike's first public statement since she survived an execution attempt by lethal injection in September.
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Pike is facing death penalty for 1995 murder of classmate, despite surviving a botched execution last month
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New details of IV team’s attempts to find a vein shared by Pike’s lawyer ‘shocked and disturbed’ practitioners
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Tennessee execution team members failed multiple times to establish working IV lines in Christa Pike’s arms before her attempted execution and warned that some of her veins may have ruptured, or “blown,” before she was injected with pentobarbital, her attorney wrote in a court document filed Thursday.
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After spending decades in prison for a gruesome murder, Christa Pike was set to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years. But something went wrong.
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New account from Pike’s lawyer suggests team was racked by doubts even before pentobarbital began to flow