A lawyer for convicted murderer Christa Pike says that she woke up in hospital “angry and confused” after she survived a botched execution attempt last week.

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Her first words were to ask “Where am I?” and “Who are you?”, her lawyer Randy Spivey recalled during a news conference.

Pike, who was sentenced to death after murdering Colleen Slemmer with her then-boyfriend in 1995, survived two lethal injections on 30 September in Tennessee.

Experts and her legal team say her apparent recovery is unprecedented, and that no other US inmate has survived a lethal injection from executioners.

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A court on Wednesday ordered the state of Tennessee to preserve all evidence related to the failed execution.

Pike, 50, continues to receive critical medical care and is being restrained at her hands and feet in her hospital bed, her lawyers said at the news conference after a court hearing on Wednesday.

Spivey said that her legal team believed for days that she was brain dead, and expected her to be taken off life support at any moment.

However, in a “shock to everyone”, she began to talk on Tuesday, while recalling only limited details about the execution attempt.

Pike, he said, had helped the execution team find a vein in her arm, and she was kind and polite while she was being injected.

Then she woke up in a hospital with a tube down her throat and people she didn’t know. Both of her arms, he said, are now “tremendously swollen”.

📰 Source: Capital FM Kenya