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Christa Pike said she was "ready to be free" before her botched execution

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Christa Pike said she was "ready to be free" before her botched execution
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In her final statement before her botched execution, convicted killer Christa Pike said she was ready to die, "ready to be free." But instead, she survived two doses of a supposedly lethal drug, in the second failed execution in Tennessee this year. Skyler Henry reports.

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