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Christa Pike returns to Tennessee prison after hospital stay following execution attempt

Christa Pike has been discharged from a Nashville-area hospital and returned to the Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, her attorneys said Saturday. She is continuing to receive medical care at the prison, 10 days after Tennessee’s execution attempt failed.

Christa Pike returns to Tennessee prison after hospital stay following execution attempt
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Christa Pike has been discharged from a hospital and returned to the Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, where she has been held for more than 30 years, her attorneys said Saturday, Oct. 10. Pike was hospitalized after Tennessee’s attempt to execute her failed. Her attorneys said she is continuing to receive medical care at the prison and that they will monitor her recovery. “She is grateful to the first responders and her medical team for their care in these extraordinary circumstances,” attorneys Stephen Ferrell, Luke Ihnen, Randy Spivey and Kelly Gleason said in a statement. Pike survived after receiving a full dosage of pentobarbital, according to reports on the case. Her lawyers said her arms were swollen, burned and blistered after the attempt. She was unconscious and on a ventilator the following day, then was reported awake and talking on Oct. 6. The discharge came 10 days after the failed execution attempt. Her legal team did not provide further details about her condition.

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