"The state owes me an apology": Colleen Slemmer's mother's grief after Christa Pike's botched execution

May Martinez, the mother of 1995 murder victim Colleen Slemmer, traveled over 1,400 kilometers from Orange Park, Florida, to Nashville, Tennessee, alongside her husband. The journey was undertaken to witness the scheduled execution of Christa Pike, who was convicted of killing Slemmer. Following developments surrounding the scheduled procedure, Martinez expressed profound distress and asserted that the state owed her an apology.

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