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In their most recent statement, attorneys said Pike, who survived two lethal injections, has begun walking and eating again.
Christa Pike's botched execution in Tennessee was not the first to go wrong on Frank Strada's watch. Before he took charge of Tennessee's prisons, Strada oversaw three botched executions in Arizona.
Six days after Tennessee abandoned her execution, Christa Pike is conscious and speaking from a hospital, according to her attorneys.