Christa Pike has been discharged from the hospital after surviving Tennessee’s botched 30 September attempt to execute her by lethal injection and is back in prison, her lawyers said on Saturday.
Pike, 50, returned to the Deborah K Johnson rehabilitation center, where she has been imprisoned for the last three decades, her attorneys, Stephen Ferrell, Luke Ihnen, Randy Spivey and Kelly Gleason, said in a statement.
“She is grateful to the first responders and her medical team for their care in these extraordinary circumstances,” Pike’s lawyers added. “She is continuing to receive medical care at the prison, and we will continue to
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