Christa Pike Is “Up and Walking” After the Botched Execution — And She Remembers More Than Expected

Christa Pike is “up and walking” in the hospital after she cheated death and survived her botched execution last week — which she is “very aware” of, according to her legal team.

Pike, 50, is still mentally “foggy” after she survived two lethal injections from the Tennessee Department of Corrections on Sept. 30, but is extraordinarily moving around her hospital room a week later, her lawyer Stephen Ferrell told the BBC.

“What’s been described to me is that physically there’s quite a bit going on, that her arms are very injured and she’s not able to use them very much,” he told the outlet.

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“She is up and walking for the first time today, but just around the room, not very far,” Ferrell added.

While Pike’s physical condition has improved, he described her mental state as “good and bad” and said it remains to be determined whether she suffered any permanent brain damage.