Christa Pike leaves hospital after surviving botched execution, her lawyers say
· Telemundo McAllen (KTLM)
Christa Pike, a death row inmate who survived a botched execution in Tennessee, has been discharged from the hospital. Her attorneys announced that she left the local hospital after receiving two doses of pentobarbital but survived and was hospitalized. Pike is now at the Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, where she has been for over 30 years. Although she has started walking and regained limited consciousness and speech, her lawyers noted ongoing issues with concentration and memory. They plan to request that Governor Bill Lee commute her death sentence to life without parole. The failed execution has raised questions about the death penalty process in Tennessee.
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