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Alba Asenjo Domínguez

Christa Pike out of hospital and back in prison after botched execution attempt

A young woman cries
Christa Pike cries after being sentenced to death on 30 March 1996 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Photograph: WBIR-TV/AP

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.

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