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Tennessee governor hints Pike's death sentence will remain after botched execution
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee suggested Christa Pike's death sentence will remain unchanged following her survival of a botched lethal injection execution in September.
Christa Pike, 50, survived a lethal injection execution in Tennessee on 30 September, becoming the first person ever to survive such an attempt. Governor Bill Lee indicated her death sentence would likely remain in place unless challenged by courts, though Pike's legal team has called for her sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. Pike has now released her first public statement, saying she has experienced constant physical and mental pain since waking confused in hospital days after the failed execution. She criticised the 'incompetence' of those involved while expressing sympathy for her victim's family. Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of her classmate Colleen Slemmer when she was 18. Executions have been halted in Tennessee through the end of the year pending investigation into what went wrong.
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