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After Surviving Botched Execution, Christa Pike Speaks Out

“There hasn’t been a moment since that night when I haven’t been in pain,” Pike said Friday.

By Jessica Corbett

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Christa Pike, whose twice-botched execution in Tennessee last month has renewed calls for abolishing the death penalty in the United States, spoke out about her experience on Friday, a month after she had “walked into the execution chamber at Riverbend men’s prison prepared to die.” “I had made my peace,” Pike said in a statement dictated by her legal team. “I had told the people who loved me…

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