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US execution survivor Christa Pike says she is now in ‘constant pain’
Pike, 50, is being held in solitary confinement and faces an uncertain future after surviving a failed lethal injection.
Al Jazeera•
An American woman who survived an execution in a Tennessee prison has spoken out for the first time.
In a statement released via her legal team on Friday, Christa Pike, 50, said she is now in constant pain and struggling to speak.
“There hasn’t been a moment since that night when I haven’t been in pain,” Pike said, adding that the pain is both “physical and emotional”.
Pike’s lawyers say the two separate doses of the lethal drug phenobarbital administered to her on September 30 may have failed to kill her because the drug did not enter her bloodstream. Instead, it pooled in her arms, leaving them burned and blistered.