Christa Pike says she is in constant pain since surviving a lethal injection in Tennessee last month. In her first public statement, issued Friday, she expressed gratitude for the love and support she has received. Pike says she went into…

In her first public statement since her botched execution last month, Pike said she went into the execution chamber prepared to die in peace.

Tennessee execution team members failed multiple times to establish working IV lines in Christa Pike's arms before her attempted execution and warned that some of her veins may have ruptured, or "blown," before she was injected with the lethal drug, her attorney wrote in a court document filed Thursday.