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

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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