Christa Pike ‘breaks silence’ as she is released from hospital after botched execution

dose of pentobarbital and was hospitalized. Her legal team had previously warned that a blood-clotting disorder could make lethal injection unnecessarily painful. Although she can now speak and stand, her attorneys say the lasting effects remain uncertain.

Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of Job Corps classmate Colleen Slemmer, whom she continue reading …