Christa Pike conscious and speaking after botched execution: Attorneys

Christa Pike, who was sentenced to death for murder, had been unconscious and on a ventilator in critical condition after receiving two supposedly lethal injections at a Tennessee prison

A death row inmate who survived a botched execution last week is conscious and talking in hospital, according to her lawyers, who want to commute her death sentence to life imprisonment without parole.

The prisoner received two doses of pentobarbital as authorities tried to put her to death on 30 September Christa Pike, a Tennessee prisoner who survived the state’s attempt to execute her, is awake and speaking as she receives treatment at a hospital, her attorneys said on…

Her lawyers describe her recovery as 'medically unprecedented'.

The 50-year-old was hospitalised in a critical condition after last week’s botched attempt to put her to death.

Christa Pike is conscious and speaking nearly a week after a botched execution left her critically injured and temporarily on a ventilator, her attorneys said Tuesday.

Christa Pike is awake and talking after surviving two doses of pentobarbital during Tennessee's failed execution attempt, her attorneys say.