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Mother of Christa Pike's victim speaks out following botched execution

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The mother of the teenager murdered by Christa Pike said she believes she is owed an apology following this week's botched execution in Tennessee.

Wednesday's execution attempt came 30 years after Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.

Pike, 50, the only woman on Tennessee's death row, is in critical condition at a hospital and receiving "life-saving" care after her execution failed despite multiple lethal injections, her attorneys said Thursday.

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