Death row inmate Christa Pike is speaking out one month after surviving Tennessee's attempt to execute her, saying she remains in constant pain and had never contemplated a life beyond the night she expected to die.Pike, 50, described her condition in a statement dictated to her legal team and released Friday."One month ago on September 30, I walked into the execution chamber at Riverbend men’s prison prepared to die," Pike said."I had made my peace."CHRISTA PIKE'S ATTORNEYS SAY SHE'S IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER BOTCHED LETHAL INJECTIONSPike said she thanked those who had supported her through the years and told those who were there to witness her execution that she was "leaving them in loving kindness."An execution gurney is shown alongside a Tennessee Department of Correction booking photo of death row inmate Christa Pike, whose attorneys filed an emergency motion seeking to preserve evidence after the state's failed execution attempt.
(Greg Smith/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images ; Tennessee Department of Correction via AP)"Several days later I woke up alone in a hospital confused and in pain," Pike said."There hasn't been a moment since that night when I haven't been in pain.
My body hurts.My arms hurt.
My hands hurt.My throat hurts.
I still struggle to speak.And the pain isn't just physical.
There is pain in my mind and in my soul."CHRISTA PIKE NOW CONSCIOUS AND TALKING AFTER SURVIVING 2 DOSES OF LETHAL INJECTION DRUGPike said she had never considered what her life would look like if she survived the execution."I had not contemplated life beyond that night, and I’m deeply hurt by the incompetence that has put so many people in this terrible position," she said."I continue to think about my victim’s family and the terrible pain and loss they have endured."EX-CHIEF SAYS CHRISTA PIKE WAS 'ALMOST GIDDY' DESCRIBING MURDER AS GOVERNOR WEIGHS IN AFTER BOTCHED EXECUTIONPike was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a fellow par...