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Christa Pike describes persistent pain after failed execution

FOX 10 Phoenix reports her first public statement as her attorneys seek to have her death sentence commuted to life without parole.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 199,818 views a day, 62 times a normal first day on this channel (3,214).

Christa Pike releases first statement after surviving execution | FOX 10 Phoenix

Christa Pike dictated the statement to her attorneys, describing constant pain and difficulty speaking a month after surviving an attempted lethal injection. In FOX 10 Phoenix's report, she says she had not contemplated living beyond the night of the execution.

The brief report, posted Saturday, drew about 200,000 views in its first day, more than sixty times the station's usual first-day audience for Shorts. Its subject is Pike's account of her condition and the legal request that follows it.

Pike describes pain in her body, arm, hands and throat. The station reports that she received two doses during the failed execution and remains in isolation in a medical ward while recovering.

Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of her classmate Colleen Slemmer. Her attorneys are asking the governor to commute her sentence to life without parole. The report presents that as a request, not a decision on her sentence.

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