Christa Pike discharged from hospital after surviving botched Tennessee execution

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike, 50, convicted of the 1995 torture-murder of classmate Colleen Slemmer, has been discharged from a Nashville hospital and returned to the Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, her attorneys said Saturday. Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital during a Sept. 30 lethal injection attempt; her attorneys said they believed she was brain dead on life support before she regained consciousness and began talking Tuesday. She is continuing to receive medical care in prison. Gov. Bill Lee has ordered an independent review of the execution.