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Christa Pike makes first public comments since failed execution: ‘There is pain in my mind and in my soul’

Pike is facing death penalty for 1995 murder of classmate, despite surviving a botched execution last month Christa Pike has marked a month since her failed execution by Tennessee and released a statement in which she laments the “incompetence” that has led to this moment, adding that despite ongoing healing she remains in constant physical pain and mental anguish. In comments released by her legal team on Friday, the prisoner said that there had not been a moment since she was injected with a m