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Christa Pike, in first statement since botched execution, says she’s been in pain every moment since waking up

Christa Pike, who survived a botched execution attempt in Tennessee last month, said Friday that she’s been in pain every moment since she woke up confused in the hospital. Pike said she’d entered the execution chamber having said her goodbyes, adding, “I had not contemplated life beyond that night.”  “Several days later I woke up…

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Christa Pike released from hospital, back in prison following botched execution in Tennessee, lawyers say

Christa Pike, the woman whose execution by lethal injection was botched last month in Tennessee, has been released from the hospital and is now back in prison, according to her lawyers. She has been transferred back to Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville, where she had been held before her planned execution on Sept….

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