# Christa Pike awake after failed Tennessee execution, lawyers say

https://mins.news/en/item/88839

- DW, 2026-10-06 23:49 UTC
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- Original: https://www.dw.com/en/christa-pike-awake-after-failed-tennessee-execution-lawyers/a-79569867?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf

> Christa Pike, a Tennessee death-row inmate who survived a botched lethal injection last week, is conscious and speaking in hospital, her lawyers say. They warn that her prognosis remains unclear, seek to preserve evidence from the attempt and want her sentence commuted to life without parole.

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