US death row killer Christa Pike begs court not to return her to her former prison block after surviving botched execution

Christa Pike, 50, who survived two lethal injections of pentobarbital on September 30, has filed an emergency court motion warning she will be "seriously hurt" if returned to her former prison pod, which she says houses inmates with serious assault histories. Her lawyers disclosed that she has had at least one emergency room visit since her initial discharge, and has since been assigned to scrub a shower overrun with cockroaches — duties her team argue place her at serious risk of further infection.

Pike says her body is in constant pain: 'My arms hurt. My hands hurt. My throat hurts. I still struggle to speak.'

Her lawyers had warned before the execution that she carries a rare form of cancer, raising the medical risks of a lethal injection.

Pike was convicted in 1996 for a Tennessee murder she committed the previous year with her then-boyfriend.