# @cgtneurope on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-10-07T10:26:55.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** CGTN Europe (@cgtneurope) — https://gondola.cc/cgtneurope

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Convicted killer Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee's effort to execute her by lethal injection last week, foiling the state's first attempt to put a woman to death in two centuries, has regained consciousness and is speaking, her lawyers have said in a statement.⁣
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Despite severe injuries to her arms from the insertion of intravenous lines during the aborted execution, Pike, 50, is 'still handcuffed and shackled' to her hospital bed while she remains under medical care, her team of public defense attorneys wrote.⁣
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'Her prognosis remains unclear, but at a minimum we expect a long recovery,' the lawyers' statement said, adding that a court hearing on Pike's case was scheduled for Wednesday in Davidson County Chancery Court.⁣
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The hearing pertains to her lawyers' request for a court order to preserve evidence from the failed execution they said would show the Tennessee Department of Correction violated Pike's constitutional rights by subjecting her to cruel and unusual punishment, a spokesperson said.⁣
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Pike, sentenced to death for her role as a teenager in the torture-murder of 19-year-old schoolmate Colleen Slemmer three decades ago, survived the execution attempt on the night of September 30 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, the state capital. She has been hospitalized since then.⁣
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#christapike #pike #tennessee

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