Christa Pike awake after botched Tennessee execution

Christa Pike awake after botched Tennessee execution

Christa Pike, a Tennessee death row inmate, is conscious and speaking in the hospital nearly a week after surviving a failed lethal injection execution, her attorneys say. They call her recovery "medically unprecedented," as Tennessee suspends executions and its prison chief resigns.

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