Christa Pike was scheduled to be executed Wednesday.
But after two injections, she kept breathing. She made snoring sounds, she talked, she said her arm was hurting.
Pike, sentenced to die for torturing and killing 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995, said as her scheduled lethal injection began that she was at peace.
Strapped to a gurney around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Pike, who was allowed to give a final statement, said she was leaving the world with love.
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