Christa Pike now walking after US execution went wrong, lawyer tells BBC
A lawyer says the murderer of Colleen Slemmer is moving around her hospital room after surviving two lethal injections.
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A lawyer says the murderer of Colleen Slemmer is moving around her hospital room after surviving two lethal injections.
Lawyers for Jamaal Howard had asked a judge to pause the execution after Christa Pike's botched lethal injections.
A condemned female murderer who survived two lethal injections during a botched execution by the US state of Tennessee was in critical condition and receiving โlife-saving careโ, her lawyer said on Thursday. In an extraordinary chain of events, Christa Pike, 50, was whisked from a prison execution chamber to a hospital Wednesday night, still alive despite two deadly doses of pentobarbital. โWhat we have been told is that she is in critical condition, receiving life-saving care,โ Randy Spivey...