3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Oct 30
Summary
Christa Pike, 50, said in her first public comments since Sept. 30 that she has been in constant pain and still struggles to speak after Tennessee's botched execution attempt.
A statement dictated to her legal team said her body, arms, hands and throat hurt, and that she has been kept largely in isolation since waking up alone and confused.
Pike said she had said goodbye to loved ones and was prepared to die before the state administered pentobarbital, making her the first known person to survive after receiving a lethal dose of the drug.
The case returns attention to Tennessee's execution procedures in a death sentence stemming from Pike's conviction for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville.