Pike is facing death penalty for 1995 murder of classmate, despite surviving a botched execution last month<\/p>\n
Christa Pike has marked a month since her failed execution by Tennessee and released a statement in which she laments the \u201cincompetence\u201d that has led to this moment, adding that despite ongoing healing she remains in constant physical pain and mental anguish.<\/p>\n
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 massive dose of the sedative pentobarbital that she had not been in pain. \u201cMy body hurts. My arms hurt. My hands hurt. My throat hurts. I still struggle to speak. And the pain isn\u2019t just physical. There is pain in my mind and in my soul,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
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