Christa Pike has been discharged from a Nashville hospital, her lawyers said on Saturday, 10 days after she survived an attempt at lethal injection. She has returned to Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville, the primary prison for women in Tennessee, her lawyers said.
As of Thursday, Ms. Pike had been walking with assistance but was still struggling with concentration and memory. "She is grateful to the first responders and her medical team for their care in these extraordinary circumstances," her lawyers said in a statement. "She is continuing to receive medical care at the prison, and we will continue to track her recovery."
Ms. Pike had spent three decades in the prison, largely in isolation, for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer, 19, a classmate in Knoxville. On Sept. 30, she survived two doses of the drug pentobarbital, the second time this year Tennessee has failed to carry out an execution.
The case has drawn attention to the state's execution procedures, which have faced scrutiny after repeated problems with lethal injections. Further details are expected as the situation develops.
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