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Christa Pike discharged from the hospital and back in prison
NPR • • nation
Key Points:
- Christa Pike has been released from a local hospital and returned to the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center prison in Tennessee, where she is continuing to receive medical care.
- Pike was hospitalized for several days following a failed execution attempt on September 30, during which she survived two doses of the sedative pentobarbital.
- During the execution, Pike reported pain and discomfort after the first dose, and although she became unconscious after the second dose, she continued to breathe and make choking sounds.
- A judge has ordered prison officials to preserve all evidence related to the failed execution, including messages connected to the incident.
- Pike was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1995 torture and murder of Colleen Slemmer, a crime she committed at age 18 alongside her boyfriend, who received life imprisonment.
