US death row inmate Christa Pike “conscious and talking” after surviving lethal injection | BBC News

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US death row inmate Christa Pike is conscious and speaking, after surviving a failed execution attempt in the US state of Tennessee, her lawyers have said. Pike, 50, continues to receive critical medical care while handcuffed in hospital, according to the statement from her attorneys. She was sentenced to death following her conviction for murdering Colleen Slemmer in 1995. But Pike survived two lethal injections and was transferred to a hospital in Nashville for treatment. Her lawyers had said in the days afterwards that she was unconscious while medical staff cleared her body of the pentobarbital injected during the execution attempt. It was suggested that she might have suffered irreversible brain damage. Pike's lawyers said that her recovery is "medically unprecedented", and while her prognosis remains unclear, "at a minimum, we expect a long recovery". They said she is the only person known to have survived a completed execution attempt in the US. Deborah Denno, a criminologi

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