{"id":87233,"date":"2026-10-07T07:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87233"},"modified":"2026-10-07T07:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:52:07","slug":"executed-woman-regains-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/executed-woman-regains-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Executed&#8217; Woman Regains Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Fox News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1200\/675\/Christa-Pike-Botched-Execution-defense-Filing-001.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"A composite image shows a lethal injection gurney and a Tennessee Department of Correction booking photo of Christa Pike, the death row inmate whose attorneys say she remains hospitalized after a failed execution attempt.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" data-layout-index=\"5\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southeast\/tennessee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_us_article_main-content_article-body_6_1\">Tennessee<\/a> death row inmate is awake and talking after surviving two doses of a lethal injection drug during a failed execution, her attorneys said Tuesday.\u00a0Christa Pike continues to receive critical medical care following Tennessee\u2019s attempt to execute her last Wednesday, her attorneys said in a statement posted on the <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mercyforchrista.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_us_article_main-content_article-body_6_2\">Mercy for Christa website<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;Against all odds, Christa Pike is conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical medical care,&#8221; the statement said.\u00a0They said Pike remains handcuffed and shackled to her hospital bed despite severe damage to her arms. &#8220;Her recovery is medically unprecedented. Her prognosis remains unclear but, at a minimum, we expect a long recovery,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: A Tennessee death row inmate is awake and talking after surviving two doses of a lethal injection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87234,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87233\/revisions\/87234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}