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Is Christa Pike still in pain after surviving her execution?
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Christa Pike survived her execution attempt in September, and the Death Penalty Information Center calls her the only person known to have survived lethal injection during an execution. There hasn't been a moment since that night when I haven't been in pain.
“There hasn't been a moment since that night when I haven't been in pain.”
She is 50 years old, and her lawyers say she was left with burned arms and pneumonia.
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The killing happened near Knoxville years ago, and she is now held in Nashville, largely isolated.
Knoxville and Nashville
Her lawyers want her sentence cut to life, but the governor expects it to stand unless the courts decide otherwise, and it is unclear whether Tennessee would try again. I don't know why I survived that night. I don't know what comes next.
“I don't know why I survived that night. I don't know what comes next.”
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Christa Pike breaks silence, says constant pain after failed Tennessee executionRead the article
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- Deutsche WelleTennessee woman Christa Pike describes pain after failed execution
- BBCChrista Pike claims to have woken up “confused and in pain” after her failed execution.
- LaSextaChrista Pike confesses to constant pain after surviving two lethal injections in the US: “It is not just physical, I feel it in my mind and in my soul”
- BBCChrista Pike, who survived an execution attempt in the US, spoke for the first time
- DIE WELTConvicted murderer: Christa Pike after failed execution
- NOSChrista Pike reacts after failed execution: “I am in constant pain”