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She told People magazine before that night that Krista had never apologized for killing her daughter and that she wanted to finally see justice.

And today, for the first time since Krista woke up, May Martinez spoke publicly in an interview with Knoxville's WBIR.

She said she had a feeling Krista would survive that night and that she doesn't believe the state will try to execute her again.

When they asked what she would want to happen next, she said, quote, it doesn't matter what They're going to do what they're going to do.

Instead, it's about what happens when a state gives itself the power to take a life, how it chooses to exercise that power, and what happens when it decides someone must die then fails to kill them.

John North is an investigative journalist at WBIR television in Knoxville.

He was actually there when Tennessee failed to execute Krista Pike.

John, you have experienced something that I never have.

Um, w- what about the family of Colleen Slemmer? The, this is the, the, the victim who w- who was tortured and, and murdered in Knoxville, um, so long ago.

WBIR asked her mother what she thought the state should do, and the response was basically, "It doesn't matter what I think," I think.

D- d- does it matter what the, what the family of a victim, uh, wants to do in a case like this?

Um, I think it depends kinda how you mean that.

Bring back the electric chair and deliver justice for these victims swiftly." So Marsha Blackburn wants to bring back the chair.

Colleen Slemmer's mother, May Martinez, told WBIR she isn't counting on the state to finish the job.

She said, "It doesn't matter what I think.

They're going to do what they're going to do." Martinez says if prison officials try to execute Pike again, she thinks the result could be the same.