Christa Pike conscious after botched Tennessee execution

Christa Pike conscious after botched Tennessee execution

Christa Pike, a Tennessee death row inmate, is conscious and speaking in hospital nearly a week after surviving two doses of lethal injection during a failed execution attempt. Her attorneys call her recovery "medically unprecedented," as Tennessee has suspended executions and the prison chief has resigned over the botched procedure.

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