Christa Pike says there is ‘pain in my mind and in my soul’ one month after her failed execution

One month ago, Christa Pike survived what seemed impossible: a lethal injection in which two rounds of the drug had already entered her body. Medics took her from the Tennessee death chamber and she was placed on a hospital ventilator; she regained consciousness days later. Now, Pike, the sole woman on Tennessee’s death row, says she is healing in a prison medical ward, but that the pain she still feels extends far beyond the physical. “There hasn’t been a moment since that night when I haven’t been in pain,” Pike, 50, said in her first public statement, which her legal team shared Friday. “My body hurts. My arms hurt. My hands hurt. My throat hurts. I still struggle to speak. And the pain isn’t just physical.