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Christa Pike, who has regained consciousness and is speaking a week Tennessee failed to execute her, is believed to be the only person to survive after receiving lethal injection drugs during an execution. But Pike is not the first inmate to survive a botched execution attempt.
Tennessee could still execute Pike, 50, the only woman on its death row. Her legal fate hinges on what it does next.
After Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike survived two doses of a lethal injection drug, could the death penalty be off the table? A capital punishment expert weighs in.