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Christa Pike Has Not Eaten Any Food Since Botched Execution

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Christa Pike walking and eating again after botched Tennessee execution

The update comes just four days after Pike's attorneys said that she was considered brain dead.

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Christa Pike has pneumonia, unable to move arms after botched execution

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Christa Pike 'up and walking' after botched execution, attorney says

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Texas carries out nation’s first execution since Christa Pike’s failed lethal injection in Tennessee

A Texas man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk is set to die by lethal injection on Wednesday in what would be the nation’s 30th execution this year.

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What Americans think about the death penalty

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Christa Pike Didn’t Eat Her ‘Last Meal’ Before Failed Execution. Her Lawyers Reveal Why

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Christa Pike’s attorneys set to appear in court after botched execution

Pike is conscious and speaking one week after the failed execution, the attorneys say.

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Christa Pike's first words revealed after she unexpectedly woke up while lawyers thought she was 'brain dead'

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Could Tennessee attempt another execution of Christa Pike?

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'Accidents happen': What Supreme Court has said about survivors of botched executions

Christa Pike's situation has similarities to a 1947 Supreme Court case.

Another 'disturbing' botched execution. Why does this keep happening?

Since 1982, there have been at least 64 botched executions, the vast majority of which involved lethal injection, according to an analysis by the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. Seven of those execution attempts failed entirely because officials in Tennessee, Idaho, Alabama and Ohio could not properly insert intravenous lines.

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Why botched lethal injections are becoming more common

The failed execution of Christa Pike Wednesday night in Tennessee wasn’t the first time a lethal injection didn’t go as planned. It wasn’t even the first time this year in the state of Tennessee.

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Tennessee's botched execution highlights unsettled state of death penalty in America

With capital punishment on the wane, executions have become the purview of a shrinking number of places.

A botched execution raises questions about death penalty protocols

Christa Pike is on death row in Tennessee for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. Pike was scheduled to be executed on Wednesday night, but she was still alive after receiving two doses of a lethal injection.