The Brief Christa Pike was  up and walking  in her hospital room by late Wednesday, a day after she woke up from a failed execution attempt in Tennessee. Pike's lawyers say the inmate is  very injured,  and that her mental state is  kind of good and bad.  It's still unclear what's next for Pike: Her case is unprecedented, as she's believed to be the only person to ever survive two shots of lethal injection during an execution.



A day after waking up from a failed execution attempt, Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike was  up and walking  in her hospital room late Wednesday, her lawyers said.

Attorney Stephen Farrell shared the update in an interview with BBC Radio.

Christa Pike  up and walking'

What they're saying:

 She is up and walking for the first time today, but just around the room, not very far,  lawyer Stephen Farrell told BBC Radio .

Christa Pike (Photo: TN Department of Correction)

 What's been described to me is that physically there's quite a bit going on, that her arms are very injured and she's not able to use them very much. 

When asked about her mental state, Farrell said it's  kind of good and bad. 


 Good that she is fairly with it, but she's also somewhat foggy. She can lose her train of thought really easily and forgets where she's going,  he said.  There could be some permanent damage. We don't know that yet. 

Farrell said it's imperative that Pike gets psychological support, in addition to medical treatment, because it's  clearly necessary now. 

What happened to Christa Pike?

The backstory:

Pike, 50, was 18 years old when she and her boyfriend tortured and killed a classmate, Colleen Slemmer, in a jealous rage in 1995. Before her failed execution last week, she was set to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years.

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A federal appeals court briefly paused the execution on Sept. 30 and said more time was needed to consider her lawyers' last-ditch appeals, but the Supreme Court allowed the execution to

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