Christa Pike has made strides in her recovery in the weeks since her botched execution, and is now said to be walking and even speaking in full sentences.
The 50-year-old received two doses of pentobarbital on September 30 as Tennessee state officials tried to execute her for the 1995 stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer, but was still breathing in the aftermath.
She was then rushed to a local hospital, where she was unconscious and on a ventilator, with severe burns on her arms.
Pike has since been discharged and was sent back to the women’s prison where she was housed for 30 years, where
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