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Christa Pike is discharged from a hospital after surviving execution attempt, her attorneys say · Best of: Features

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  Christa Pike, is discharged from a hospital after surviving execution attempt, her
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  attorneys say. This article is being read by an automated voice generated
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  by Everlet. Nashville, Tennessee, the AP, Krista Pike, who survived
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  Tennessee's attempt to execute her by lethal injection, has been moved back
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  to prison, her attorneys said Saturday. Pike, fifty, was discharged from the
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  hospital and is back at the Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, the
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  women's prison where she was housed for thirty years, her attorney said
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  in a written statement. She is grateful to the first responders and
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  her medical team for their care in these extraordinary circumstances. She is
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  continuing to receive medical care at the prison, and we will continue
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  to track her recovery, they statement said. Pike had been hospitalized since
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  surviving two doses of pentobarbital, as the state attempted to execute her
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  on september thirtieth for the nineteen ninety five, beating and stabbing death
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  of classmate Colleen Slemmer. At one point she was on a ventilator
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  and her attorneys did not experts her to survive. However, they said
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  Pike woke up and began talking and walking with assistants. The Death
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  Penalty Information Center says Pike’s is the first person to survive after
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  receiving lethal injection drugs during an execution. The Tennessee Department of Correction
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  has not said what went wrong in The execution Medical and lethal
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  injection experts have focused on whether a problem with the IV line
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  caused the drug to pool in her tissue instead of entering her
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  bloodstream. Pike's attorneys wrote in a court filing that, apparently at no
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  point did any member of the execution team realize that the IV
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  lines were not correctly placed. The failed execution brought renewed scrutiny to
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  how Tennessee carries out death sentences. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has since
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  postponed the state's only other scheduled execution this year and ordered a
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  review of what went wrong. The state's prison chief resigned in the
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  wake of the failed execution. As the process got underway, Pike was
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  asked if she had a final statement, and she spoke of being
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  at peace. About five minutes later she raised her head and said
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  her arm hurt. Later, she appeared to lose consciousness, but could be
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  heard breathing heavily until media witnesses were escorted from the witness room
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  nearly ninety minutes into the execution. An ambulance took her to a
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  hospital. An earlier version misspelled the name of the prison. It has
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  been corrected to Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, instead of Deborah K.
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  Johnson Rehabilitation Center.