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Pike survived two doses of the lethal drug pentobarbital as the state sought to execute her for the 1995 murder of classmate Colleen Slemmer.
Doctors are trained to preserve life, not deliberately end it. The attempted execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee exposes the cruelty of lethal injection.
Pike's lawyers say she is "grateful" to the medical team who cared for her after she survived.