Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike has been discharged from the hospital and returned to prison after surviving a botched lethal injection that left her with serious medical complications, her attorneys announced.Pike, who survived two doses of the execution drug pentobarbital on Sept.30, is back at the Deborah K.
Johnson Rehabilitation Center, where she has been housed for more than 30 years, according to a joint statement from her legal team."Christa Pike was discharged from a local hospital and is now at Deborah K.Johnson Rehabilitation Center where she has been housed for more than 30 years," the statement read.
"She is grateful to the first responders and her medical team for their care in these extraordinary circumstances.She is continuing to receive medical care at the prison, and we will continue to track her recovery."CHRISTA PIKE NOW CONSCIOUS AND TALKING AFTER SURVIVING 2 DOSES OF LETHAL INJECTION DRUGChrista Gail Pike appears remotely from Deborah K.
Johnson Rehabilitation for her hearing in Knox County Criminal Court in Knoxville, Tenn., on Aug.11, 2026.
(USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect)The statement was issued by attorneys Stephen Ferrell and Luke Ihnen of Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee and Randy Spivey and Kelly Gleason of the Tennessee Office of the Post-Conviction Defender.The attorneys did not disclose when Pike was discharged or whether she has recovered from complications they previously described, including pneumonia, a blood clot and injuries to her arms.Ferrell told BBC Radio 4 on Thursday that Pike had begun walking around her hospital room but continued to struggle with injuries to her arms and memory problems.CHRISTA PIKE'S ATTORNEY SAYS SHE'S 'UP AND WALKING' MORE THAN A WEEK AFTER BOTCHED EXECUTIONEmergency vehicles arrive at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tenn., on Sept.30, 2026.
Pike had not been declared dead when witnesses were asked to leave the room they were in.(Denny Simmons/T...