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Christa Pike describes constant pain in first statement since failed execution
Christa Pike, a Tennessee death row inmate sentenced to die for murdering her classmate Colleen Slemmer, issued her first public statement since surviving a botched lethal injection last month.[3, 6, 24] In a statement released through her attorneys on Friday, Pike said there has not been a moment since that night when she has not been in pain.[14, 21] She described "pain in my mind and in my soul," said she went into the chamber prepared to die but woke up alone and confused in a hospital bed, and blamed "incompetence" for what happened.[1, 5, 24]
Why it matters Pike remains on death row and still faces the death penalty despite surviving the execution attempt.[3, 5]
Covered by The New York Times, NBC News, The Wall Street Journal and 22 more
Read first 'I'm deeply hurt': Christa Pike speaks after surviving lethal injection
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Of the 21 rated outlets that covered it, 5 are left of center, 8 are center and 8 are right of center (6 of them in the Right group). 4 more are not rated.
- Left: none.
- Leans left: HuffPost (−1.06), MS NOW (−0.76), The New York Times (−0.70), The Guardian (−0.70), The Daily Beast (−0.64).
- Center: NBC News (−0.49), PBS NewsHour (−0.48), Newsweek (−0.30), ABC News (−0.19), CBS News (−0.14), Mediaite (+0.04), Yahoo News (+0.07), UPI (+0.17).
- Leans right: The Wall Street Journal (+0.63), New York Post (+0.64).
- Right: Washington Examiner (+1.34), WorldNetDaily (+1.44), Fox News (+1.52), The Daily Wire (+2.07), The Western Journal (+2.13), The Political Insider (+2.65).
Not rated BBC News, Los Angeles Times, NewsNation, Sky News. Not placed: they have no lean score.
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