"My arm is going to explode": Christa Pike's last words at her failed execution in Tennessee
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On Wednesday, September 30, Tennessee attempted to execute 50-year-old Christa Gail Pike via lethal injection at the Riverbend maximum-security prison in Nashville. Pike, who has been on death row since 1996 for the murder of Colleen Slemmer, survived two administered doses of pentobarbital during the procedure.
According to journalists who witnessed the event, Pike's botched execution included her final spoken words before the failure: "El brazo me va a reventar" (My arm is going to burst). Reports highlight that Pike is the only woman currently condemned to death in Tennessee and was slated to be the first female executed in the state in over two hundred years.
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InfobaeFocuses on the condemned inmate's dramatic final words and the failed procedure.
Diario LibreEmphasizes historical context regarding women on death row and surviving two lethal doses.
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