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After failed US execution, Christa Pike is walking with help and eating, lawyers say

Christa Pike has taken her first steps with help, just one week after a failed attempt to execute the Tennessee woman left her in critical condition, her lawyers said on Thursday. Pike, 50, survived two doses of pentobarbital as the state sought to put her to death eight days ago for the 1995 beatin

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  1. South China Morning Post: After failed US execution, Christa Pike is walking with help and eating, lawyers say
  2. CNA: After botched US execution, Christa Pike walking, mentally 'foggy': lawyer