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· collected 2026-10-10 · by Mark Osborne, Emily Mae Czachor
Christa Pike has been released from a hospital following a failed execution attempt on September 30 and has returned to the Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville, according to her lawyers. She was given two doses of a lethal injection drug but survived and received medical care that included recovery of movement and strength, with reports of her walking with assistance by Thursday. Pike was convicted in 1995 for the murder of Colleen Slemmer, involving severe torture before death on a university campus.
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Story summary
Christa Pike, who survived a failed lethal injection execution attempt by Tennessee on September 30, has been discharged from a local hospital and transferred back to the Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville, where she had been held for over 30 years. Her attorneys stated that she is grateful for medical care provided during this "extraordinary circumstances" and will continue receiving treatment at the prison facility. Pike's case is unprecedented as no one has survived an execution attempt by lethal injection before. She was originally sentenced to death in 1995 for the beating and stabbing murder of Colleen Slemmer.
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Christa Pike, the woman whose
last month in Tennessee, has been released from the hospital and is now back in prison, according to her lawyers.
uncertain
Pike → release → lawyers
She has been transferred back to Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville, where she had been held before her planned execution on Sept. 30.
asserted
she → transfer → Sept.
"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," her attorneys, Stephen Ferrell, Luke Ihnen, Randy Spivey and Kelly Gleason, said in a statement Saturday.
asserted
attorneys → discharge → statement
She is continuing to receive medical care at the prison, and we will continue to track her recovery.
asserted
we → continue → recovery
Pike, 50, was given two doses of a lethal injection drug, but her legal team confirmed shortly after the failed procedure that, in an unprecedented turn, she was alive and had been hospitalized.
asserted
she → give → turn
Her legal team said on Tuesday that
and was speaking from her hospital bed.
asserted
team → say → bed
On Wednesday, Pike began "taking limited steps" with help, according to her team.
uncertain
Pike → begin → team
And on Thursday, her attorneys detailed more progress, saying in a statement that she was walking "with some assistance" and her arms were "healing and regaining movement and strength."
asserted
arms → detail → movement
They also said that her "lungs are clear, and she has started to eat a regular diet."
asserted
she → say → diet
Pike is the only person known to have survived an execution attempt in the U.S., according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
uncertain
Pike → know → Center
Pike was convicted in 1995 of the brutal murder of her classmate, 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.
asserted
Pike → convict → classmate
Court filings show that Pike, then 18, tortured and killed Slemmer, slashing her with a meat cleaver and box cutter for up to an hour in a wooded part of the University of Tennessee campus, with help from her boyfriend and a friend.
asserted
Pike → show → boyfriend
This is a developing story.
asserted
This → develop → ?
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