My arm feels like itβs about to burst open,β Pike said at around 7:34 p.m., according to WKRN journalist Tori Gessner, who witnessed the execution.
Pike then reportedly asked: βDoes this happen like that?β
Did not go as expected
What followed was a chaotic execution that lasted for more than two hours, with witnesses later reporting that Pike appeared to remain alive long after the lethal injection process began.
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The Tennessee death row inmate was ultimately taken by ambulance to a hospital, although her medical condition was not immediately known.
Christa Pike, 50, had been scheduled to be executed at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. She had spent roughly three decades on death row.