Christa Pike's Survival of Botched Execution Sparks Unanswered Questions

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Christa Pike, the convicted murderer who survived a botched execution attempt last week, may never fully recover, her lawyers revealed, as she remains unconscious in a heavily guarded hospital room.

Pike, the first woman to be put to death by Tennessee in over 200 years, has been hooked up to a ventilator since last Wednesday after shockingly surviving two rounds of a lethal injection she was sentenced to for the sadistic 1995 murder of her classmate.