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Symbolic image: Christa Pike wakes and speaks after surviving Tennessee lethal injections

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Christa Pike wakes and speaks after surviving Tennessee lethal injections

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Christa Pike, who survived two lethal injections in Tennessee, has regained consciousness and can speak, her lawyers said on Wednesday.

Her lawyer Randy Spivey said Pike, 50, was believed brain dead on Monday and was due to be taken off life support, but woke on Tuesday and asked "Where am I?" and "Who are you?". He described her as "angry and confused" and aware that the state tried to execute her. Tennessee gave her two doses of pentobarbital on Wednesday, 30 September, and she was taken to hospital in critical condition. The Death Penalty Information Center says she is the only person known to have survived being injected with execution drugs. Experts suspect a faulty IV line let the drug spread into tissue instead of the bloodstream.

Evidence order and her condition

Judge I'Ashea Myles of Nashville ordered the state to preserve everything tied to the attempt, from syringes to drug lot numbers. Her lawyers say Pike has pneumonia and a blood clot, cannot move her badly swollen arms and remains shackled to her bed, although medical staff asked for the restraints to be removed.

Executions halted, Texas proceeds

Governor Bill Lee suspended executions and ordered an independent investigation, and the head of the prison system resigned. The department says it followed protocol. In Texas, Jamaal Howard was executed on Wednesday night despite his lawyers citing Pike's case, the 30th execution in the US this year.

Other opinions

Serbia's Politika, citing the Mirror, says Tennessee law gives Pike no second attempt, while her lawyers say the state has made no promise that she will not face another execution.