Pike Conscious After Surviving Two Lethal Injections in Tennessee

Christa Pike, 50, is conscious and speaking after surviving two lethal injections — drugs used to carry out a death sentence — on Sept. 30 in Tennessee, her attorneys said Oct. 6. In a Nashville hospital under critical care and handcuffed, Pike was convicted of the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer. Her lawyers called recovery medically unprecedented, prognosis unclear.