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Christa Pike was sentenced to death in Tennessee and expressed fears about the method of execution by lethal injection.
Christa Pike, the woman who survived two lethal injections in Tennessee (USA), already expressed her fear of the execution system to which she had been sentenced in a previous interview.
In an interview recorded weeks before his execution, Pike spoke of his fears that attempts to inject him with the drug would not work. He was especially worried that the pentobarbital would cause burns, according to the Mirror.
"The drug is supposed to produce a very strong burn," Pike said. "And that scares me because they used the word 'unblocker' to refer to it, and the idea of suffocating and choking on my own body fluids and blood is not appealing at all to me," he added.
Due to these concerns, Christa Pike had petitioned the state of Tennessee to be hanged, but her request was denied by state authorities.
At a court hearing Wednesday, where Pike's attorneys sought an order for the state to preserve evidence of the execution, attorney Luke Ihnen reiterated that the drug used in lethal injection can "cause extreme pain when injected."
He explained that Pike had a "history of difficulties with blood draws and needle insertions" and said that because his "veins are so difficult to reach," those "physical characteristics were likely to interfere with proper delivery of the poison."

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