Tennessee Lethal Injection Survivor Christa Pike Returned to Prison
Christa Pike, who survived a botched lethal injection execution attempt in Tennessee, has been discharged from the hospital and returned to prison to continue her medical care.
Christa Pike, who survived an execution attempt by lethal injection in Tennessee, has been returned to prison, according to a statement released by her attorneys.
Pike, 50, was discharged from the hospital and returned to the Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, the women's prison where she has spent 30 years, her lawyers said in a statement.
"She is grateful to emergency personnel and her medical team for their care under these extraordinary circumstances. She continues to receive medical care in prison, and we will continue to monitor her recovery," her attorneys said in a statement released Saturday.
Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital when the state attempted to execute her by lethal injection on September 30, as punishment for murdering her classmate Colleen Slemmer, whom she beat and stabbed in 1995. Pike had been in a hospital since the botched execution.
The Death Penalty Information Center says Pike is the first person to survive after receiving lethal injections during an execution.