Death row killer Christa Pike describes waking up after execution she never expected to survive

Death row inmate Christa Pike is speaking out one month after surviving 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 mens prison prepared to die," Pike said. "I had made my peace."

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Pike 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."

"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."

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Pike 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 Im deeply hurt by the incompetence that has put so many people in this terrible position," she said. "I continue to think about my victims family and the terrible pain and loss they have endured."

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Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a fellow participant in a federal Job Corps program in Knoxville.

Her statement comes two days after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Pike remains incarcerated under state law and signaled that her death sentence is unlikely to change.

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Pike's attorneys have called on Lee to commute her death sentence to life without parole after the failed execution.

Pike said Friday that she is recovering but remains in the infirmary at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, where she has been largely isolated from other people.

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"I am recovering, and I know that I am getting stronger," Pike said. "But healing is not the same as being okay."

"Since that night, I have been largely isolated in the prisons medical ward, away from other people and the human connections that mean so much to me," she continued. "That isolation brings its own kind of pain. I s