'I woke up confused and in pain': Christa Pike describes moments after botched execution

Christa Pike says she remains in constant pain a month after surviving a lethal injection in Tennessee. Her lawyers want her death sentence reduced to life, while the state governor has ordered an investigation.

Christa Pike is the only inmate to ever survive after being injected with lethal doses of execution drugs.

A death row inmate who survived two lethal injections last month has released a public statement after being sent back to prison.

The 50-year-old has revealed the aftermath of surviving two lethal injections.

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,…

Pike, whose experience has galvanised critics of the death penalty, says she remains largely isolated in the prison’s medical ward

Christa Pike, who survived an execution by lethal injection in the US, has spoken publicly for the first time since the incident a month ago and said she is in constant physical and mental pain.