Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee's failed execution, is discharged from hospital and back in prison

Summary

Tennessee's attempt to execute death row inmate Christa Pike, convicted of the 1995 murder of a classmate, failed on Wednesday 30 September, and the governor announced on 3 October that the head of the state's prison system, Frank Strada, is resigning. Strada said stepping aside 'is in the best interests' of the state as an independent review is carried out to determine why the execution failed. On 4 October her lawyer said she had not regained consciousness: she remained on a ventilator in a hospital, under guard, as doctors try to get the massive dose of the barbiturate pentobarbital out of her system. Experts say trying to execute her again would push into uncharted legal territory, and it is unclear whether the state will try again. On Saturday 10 October, Christa Pike was discharged from the hospital and moved back to prison, where medical care would continue, according to the inmate's attorneys cited by The Philadelphia Inquirer and CBS News, and Fortune called Christa Pike the first person to survive lethal-injection drugs during an execution, after two doses of pentobarbital.

Latest: Christa Pike's attorneys said the inmate, who survived Tennessee's execution attempt on 30 September, had been discharged from the hospital and moved back to prison, where medical care would continue.

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