After failed US execution, Christa Pike is walking with help and eating, lawyers say

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Christa Pike has taken her first steps with help, just one week after a failed attempt to execute the Tennessee woman left her in critical condition, her lawyers said on Thursday. Pike, 50, survived two doses of pentobarbital as the state sought to put her to death eight days ago for the 1995 beating and stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer. The drug did not kill her, and her lawyers said…

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