American woman who survived execution was returned to prison

Christa Pike, who survived a failed execution attempt, was transferred from the hospital back to prison.

Pike was convicted of murdering 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995 and would have become the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years.

WASHINGTON, October 10 - RIA Novosti. Defense counsel for botched execution survivor Krista Pike said their client had been transferred from the hospital back to prison.

"Krista Pike has been released from a local hospital and is now in the Deborah Johnson Rehabilitation Center, where she has been detained for more than 30 years... She continues to receive medical care in prison, and we will monitor the progress of her recovery," the lawyers said in a statement, as quoted by local television station WVLT.

Tennessee authorities attempted to execute Pike via two lethal injections on September 30, but the procedure failed and she was taken to the hospital. The prisoner regained consciousness on October 6.