US lethal injection survivor Christa Pike returns to prison
Christa Pike, a death row inmate in Tennessee, has returned to prison after surviving a botched lethal injection attempt. Her legal team is now advocating for her sentence to be commuted to life in prison following the incident.
Why it matters
The case has reignited national debate regarding the ethics and reliability of capital punishment in the United States.
Convicted murderer Christa Pike, who survived a botched execution attempt in the US state of Tennessee last week, has been discharged from hospital and returned to prison, her lawyers say.
Pike, 50, was given two doses of the drug pentobarbital on September 30 - a usually fatal dose that nevertheless failed to kill her.
She was transported to hospital in critical condition but later regained consciousness, with her lawyers saying this week that she was walking around but in a "foggy" mental state.
Pike is the only inmate to ever survive after being injected with lethal doses of execution drugs, according to the Death Penalty Information Centre (DPI).
"Christa Pike was discharged from a local hospital and is now at Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Centre where she has been housed for more than 30 years," her lawyers said in a statement on Saturday (US Time).
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