# Christa Pike makes first public statement after botched execution

https://mins.news/en/video/123042

- BBC News, 2026-10-30 19:45 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv7HNPRm1Wc

> US death row inmate Christa Pike has issued her first public statement since her execution attempt failed in September. She was discharged from hospital late last month after surviving two pentobarbital injections that left her critically ill, and was returned to the prison where she has been held for 30 years for murdering Colleen Slemmer in 1995.

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