Christa Pike, the woman whose execution by lethal injection was botched last month in Tennessee, the U.S., has been released from the hospital and is now back in prison, according to her lawyers.

She has been transferred back to Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville, where she had been held before her planned execution Sept. 30.

“Christa Pike was discharged from a local hospital and is now at Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center where she has been housed for more than 30 years,” her attorneys said in a statement Oct. 10. “She is grateful to the first responders and her medical team for their care in these extraordinary circumstances. She is continuing to receive medical care at the prison, and we will continue to track her 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. One witness, a media attendee, noted she could be heard loudly snoring about one hour after the procedure had started. She was then taken by ambulance to a hospital.

Her legal team said Oct. 6 that she had regained consciousness and was speaking from her hospital bed. On Oct. 8, 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.” They also said that her “lungs are clear, and she has started to eat a regular diet.”

Pike is the only person known to have survived an execution attempt in the U.S., according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Pike was convicted in 1995 of the brutal murder of her classmate, 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. 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.

Pike’s execution was allowed to move forward after the Supreme Court denied a last-minute effort to halt it. She was set to be the first woman executed in the state since 1820.

It’s still unclear what will happen with Pike moving forward.

Her legal team has renewed its calls for Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to commute Pike’s death sentence, pushing him to change the sentence to life in prison without parole so the state can’t attempt to execute Pike a second time. This is the usual course of action after an inmate survives botched execution proceedings, her attorneys said.

However, while others have survived botched procedures before, Pike is the only known inmate in the United States’ modern death penalty era to remain alive after actually receiving lethal chemicals.

“The state has made no promises that Ms. Pike will not be subject to a future execution,” Ihnen, one of Pike’s attorneys, said in court.

美国田纳西州一名上个月注射死刑后“死而复生”的女囚克里斯塔·派克已出院，并被送回监狱。

派克的律师称，派克目前已被转回纳什维尔的黛布拉·K·约翰逊康复中心，这里也是她原定9月30日执行死刑前的关押地点。

律师在10月10日的一份声明中说：“克里斯塔·派克已从当地一家医院出院，目前回到黛布拉·K·约翰逊康复中心，她已在那里关押了30多年。她感谢急救人员和医疗团队在这种特殊情况下对她的照料。她仍在监狱中继续接受治疗，我们也会继续关注她的康复情况。”

50岁的派克被注射了两剂死刑药物，但她的法律团队在行刑失败后不久证实，她仍然活着，并被送往医院。一名媒体见证人指出，行刑开始约一小时后，还能听到她大声打鼾。随后，她被救护车送往当地一家医院。

她的法律团队10月6日表示，她已经恢复意识，能在病床上说话。10月8日，律师进一步说明她的恢复进展，称她已能“在有人协助的情况下行走”，双臂“正在愈合，逐渐恢复活动和力量”。他们还表示，她的“肺部清晰，已开始正常进食”。

据美国死刑信息中心称，派克是美国已知唯一一名在死刑执行失败后存活下来的人。

派克因1995年残忍杀害19岁同学科琳·斯莱默而被定罪。法庭文件显示，当时18岁的派克在男友和一名朋友的帮助下，在田纳西大学校园一片树林中，用切肉刀和美工刀对斯莱默实施了长达一小时的折磨和杀害。

在最高法院驳回最后一刻的暂缓执行请求后，派克的死刑得以推进。她原本将成为该州自1820年以来首位被处决的女性。

目前仍不清楚派克接下来会面临什么。她的法律团队再次呼吁田纳西州州长比尔·李（Bill Lee）将派克的死刑减为终身监禁且不得假释，以便该州无法再次尝试对她执行死刑。律师称，这是囚犯在死刑执行失败后存活下来的通常处理方式。

不过，尽管此前也有人在上一次执行失败后存活，但派克是美国现代死刑制度下已知唯一一名在实际注射致命化学药物后仍活着的囚犯。

派克的律师之一伊嫩在法庭上说：“州政府没有承诺派克女士不会在未来再次被处决。”

(Translated by DeepSeek)