US execution survivor Christa Pike says she is now in ‘constant pain’
Summary
Christa Pike, 50, said she has been in constant physical and emotional pain since a failed execution in a Tennessee prison on September 30. Her lawyers say the lethal drug may not have entered her bloodstream; Pike remains on death row while her legal team seeks changes to her confinement and sentence.Key Facts
- Pike said she is struggling to speak and has not been free of pain since the execution attempt.
- Pike and her boyfriend killed a 19-year-old classmate in 1995; Pike was 18 at the time and received a death sentence.
- Pike’s lawyers say two doses of phenobarbital may have pooled in her arms instead of entering her bloodstream, causing burns and blisters.
- Pike was hospitalized and unconscious for days after the failed execution.
- Pike remains scheduled to die and is held in solitary confinement.
- Her legal team asked a federal judge to let her interact with other prisoners and asked Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to change her sentence to life in prison.
- Lee said he suspects Pike’s sentence will remain unchanged unless the courts determine otherwise.
- Tennessee has ordered an independent review, postponed another lethal injection scheduled for this year, and seen the resignation of its corrections commissioner, Frank Strada.
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