# Christa Pike describes ‘pain in my mind and in my soul’ in first statement after failed execution

https://mins.news/en/item/122572

- euronews, 2026-10-30 14:04 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/30/christa-pike-describes-pain-in-my-mind-and-in-my-soul-in-first-statement-after-failed-exec

> In her first statement, Christa Pike described “pain in my mind and in my soul.” She survived two doses of pentobarbital during an attempted execution on 30 September. Pike was sentenced to death for torturing and killing her classmate Colleen Slemmer in 1995, when she was 18.

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