Christa Pike told how a botched lethal injection was her “worst nightmare” in a recording made in prison just weeks before her failed execution.
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Pike, 50, revealed fears she would suffer the same fate as Tony Carruthers, another Tennessee death row inmate whose lethal injection execution had to be called off in May.
“The concerns I have on our lethal injection method are simply that I do not have good veins, and I’m worried about our physician not being qualified to start a central line on me,” Pike said in a recording obtained by the New York Times.
“Tony Carruthers lived out my worst nightmare. Detail for detail. And I don’t want to go through that.”
Here’s the latest on the botched execution of Tennessee murderer Christa Pike:
Pike was expected to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in over 200 years Wednesday, but was instead rushed to hospital after two attempts to administer the drugs failed.
Her lawyers have said she is in a critical condition and receiving lifesaving care and suggested she may have suffered brain damage during the bungled execution.
