Christa Pike Awake After Surviving Botched Tennessee Execution

Christa Pike Awake After Surviving Botched Tennessee Execution

Christa Pike, a Tennessee death row inmate, is awake and speaking one week after surviving two doses of lethal injection during a failed execution attempt, her attorneys said. The 50-year-old, who would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in over 200 years, is described as 'angry and confused' and faces a long recovery.

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