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

Pike's lawyers say she is "grateful" to the medical team who cared for her after she survived two lethal injections last month.

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Christa Pike was released from the hospital and transferred back to prison more than a week after her botched execution, her attorneys said Saturday.

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Botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee

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Christa Pike has been discharged from hospital and returned to Tennessee prison after surviving the state's Sept. 30 lethal injection attempt, in which two doses of pentobarbital failed to kill her. Tennessee has halted its remaining 2026 executions, prison commissioner Frank Strada has resigned, a judge has ordered all execution evidence preserved, and Pike's attorneys are seeking commutation of her death sentence.

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Christa Pike released from hospital following botched execution, attorneys say

Christa Pike was released from the hospital and transferred back to prison more than a week after her botched execution, her attorneys said Saturday.

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Convicted murderer Christa Pike leaves hospital, returns to prison after botched execution

Christa Pike's lawyers on Saturday said that the 50-year-old convicted murderer has been discharged from the hospital and returned to prison. Pike was transported to the hospital in critical condition on September 30 after she survived Tennessee's botched effort to execute her for murdering a classmate when she was a teenager.

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Christa Pike out of hospital and back in prison after botched execution attempt

Pike’s lawyers said she is back in same prison she’s lived in for last 30 years and will continue to receive medical care Christa Pike has been discharged from the hospital after surviving Tennessee ’s botched 30 September attempt to execute her by lethal injection and is back in prison, her lawyers said on Saturday. Pike, 50, returned to the Deborah K Johnson rehabilitation center, where she has been imprisoned for…

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Christa Pike discharged from hospital and returned to Tennessee prison

Pike survived two doses of lethal-injection drugs on September 30, renewing scrutiny of capital punishment.

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Christa Pike released from hospital following botched execution, lawyers say

Christa Pike survived despite being given two doses of a lethal injection.

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