Pike’s lawyers said she is back in same prison she’s lived in for last 30 years and will continue to receive medical care

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.

Saturday’s update about Pike came 10 days after the death row prisoner was given two doses of pentobarbital, a lethal injection drug, in what proved to be a failed execution attempt. She was hospitalized after surviving the botched execution and was declared brain dead on Monday.

But in a shocking turnaround, on Thursday her lawyer said that she was “up and walking” – though she remained “somewhat foggy” and wasn’t able to use her arms very much.

Pike said that her arms were burning during the failed execution and asked if it was supposed to feel that way. Witnesses present in the chamber said that “nothing was normal” while officials have maintained that they followed every step of Tennessee’s approved execution protocol.

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[–] 26 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (6 children)

Witnesses present in the chamber said that “nothing was normal”

As opposed to non-botched, routine state execution matinees they go to every Thursday.

"Normal"?

Nothing about this is normal, even if the woman had died in the expected manner.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago (3 children)

    Right, do the witnesses spend a lot of their free time watching people get executed enough to have a frame of reference for what it should look like?!

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    They would certainly have known what to expect.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago

    True. Even if they don’t know the process, everyone would expect the same outcome. Though the wording makes it sound like they had an understanding of the process itself. I’m probably either reading it wrong or reading too much into it.

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