Christa Pike now walking after US execution went wrong, lawyer tells BBC
Experts described it as unprecedented.Speaking late on Wednesday to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, lawyer Stephen Ferrell said he had not spoken to Pike directly but that he had learned she was moving around her hospital room for the first time while still being mentally "foggy". Earlier, a court ordered the state of Tennessee to preserve all evidence related to the failed execution. Pike's boyfriend at the time of Slemmer's gruesome murder, Tadaryl Shipp, was spared the death penalty because he was not legally an adult when the crime was committed.
- ▪Experts described it as unprecedented.Speaking late on Wednesday to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, lawyer Stephen Ferrell said he had not spoken to Pike directly but that he had learned she was moving around her hospital room for the first
- ▪Earlier, a court ordered the state of Tennessee to preserve all evidence related to the failed execution.
- ▪Pike's boyfriend at the time of Slemmer's gruesome murder, Tadaryl Shipp, was spared the death penalty because he was not legally an adult when the crime was committed.
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Christa Pike now walking after failed US execution, lawyer tells BBC<div class="ssrcss-1553su4-ErrorMessage eitf6465"><div class="ssrcss-h7lv7m-StyledInnerContainer eitf6464"><div class="ssrcss-nbxsk2-TextContent eitf6461"><h2 type="normal" class="ssrcss-89o2pv-Heading e10rt3ze0">To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.</h2><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10">This video can not be played</p></div></div></div>Figure caption, Watch: What we know about Christa Pike's "shock" recovery in hospitalByJames FitzGeraldPublished1 hour agoChrista Pike is "up and walking" while in hospital after last week's botched attempt to execute her in the US state of Tennessee, a member of her legal team says.Pike, 50, who was sentenced to death after murdering Colleen Slemmer…
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