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 nearly a week after surviving two doses of pentobarbital during a failed execution attempt on September 30. Her attorneys called her recovery "medically unprecedented," and the state has since suspended executions amid ongoing legal and medical questions.

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