Christa Pike released from hospital, back in prison following botched execution in Tennessee, lawyers say
Her lawyers said she remains under medical care after surviving two doses of pentobarbital in a failed lethal-injection attempt.
- On Saturday, Christa Pike was discharged from the hospital and returned to prison following her botched lethal injection execution attempt last month in Tennessee, her attorneys confirmed.
- Pike survived two doses of a lethal injection drug during the September 30 execution attempt, carried out for her 1995 conviction in the murder of classmate Colleen Slemmer.
- Attorneys Stephen Ferrell, Luke Ihnen, Randy Spivey, and Kelly Gleason reported Thursday that Pike is walking "with some assistance" and her arms are "healing and regaining movement and strength."
- A judge ordered the Tennessee Department of Corrections to preserve all evidence related to the failed procedure, which attorneys discussed at a Nashville news conference on Wednesday.
- According to the Death Penalty Information Center, Pike remains the only person known to have survived an execution attempt in the United States after more than 30 years of incarceration.
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Christa Pike, who survived a lethal injection attempt in Tennessee, has been released from a hospital and returned to prison, according to her attorneys. As reported by CBS News, she is back at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville, where she had been housed for more than 30 years before her scheduled execution on September 30. Pike, 50, was given two doses of a lethal drug that night but did not die. Her attorneys said she was…
Christa Pike, 50, who was sentenced to death in the US for a murder she committed in 1995, survived despite being given two doses of lethal injection. Pike, who is said to be the only person to survive an execution by lethal injection, was discharged from the hospital after treatment and returned to prison.
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Christa Pike is the first person to ever survive an execution by lethal injection, and there is no set process for where Tennessee goes from here.
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