US murderer Christa Pike discharged from hospital 10 days after failed execution

Christa Pike, a death row inmate convicted of a 1995 murder, has been discharged from a hospital and returned to prison following a failed execution attempt on September 30. Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital, an unprecedented occurrence in modern U.S. lethal injection history. After initially being suspected of brain death, Pike regained consciousness, began speaking, and eventually started walking with assistance. A Tennessee judge has ordered the state to preserve evidence from the botched procedure as her legal team seeks to have her sentence commuted to life without parole. The state has not yet announced whether it will seek a second execution date.

Christa Pike, a death row inmate convicted of a 1995 murder, has been discharged from a hospital and returned to prison following a failed execution attempt on September 30. Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital, an unprecedented occurrence in modern U.S. lethal injection history. After initially being suspected of brain death, Pike regained consciousness, began speaking, and eventually started walking with assistance. A Tennessee judge has ordered the state to preserve evidence from the botched procedure as her legal team seeks to have her sentence commuted to life without parole. The state has not yet announced whether it will seek a second execution date.