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Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after botched execution attempt, lawyers say

The prisoner received two doses of pentobarbital last Wednesday as authorities tried to put her to death Christa Pike, a Tennessee prisoner who survived the state’s attempt to execute her, is awake and speaking as she receives treatment at a hospital, her attorneys said on…

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