{"id":818787,"date":"2026-10-30T15:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818787\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T15:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:30:09","slug":"us-inmate-christa-pike-says-she-woke-up-confused-and-in-pain-after-failed-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818787\/","title":{"rendered":"US inmate Christa Pike says she woke up &#8216;confused and in pain&#8217; after failed execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">US death row inmate Christa Pike has released her first public statement since her botched execution in September. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There hasn&#8217;t been a moment since that night when I haven&#8217;t been in pain,&#8221; she said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> &#8220;My body hurts. My arms hurt. My hands hurt. My throat hurts. I still struggle to speak. And the pain isn&#8217;t just physical. There is pain in my mind and in my soul.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pike, 50, was discharged from hospital at the end of last month after surviving two lethal injections of the drug pentobarbital, which left her in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has since been sent back to the prison where she has spent the last 30 years for murdering Colleen Slemmer in 1995. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pike is thought to be the only person to have survived an execution attempt by lethal injection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US death row inmate Christa Pike has released her first public statement since her botched execution in September.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-818787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}