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Christa Pike left the hospital and returned to Tennessee prison after failed lethal injection

Tennessee inmate Christa Pike was released from the hospital and is back in prison more than a week after she survived the state's attempt to execute her by lethal injection , her attorneys said Saturday. The big picture: The failed execution was unprecedented. Pike, 50, got two doses of the deadly drug pentobarbital on Sept. 30 and was still breathing. The state called an ambulance and Pike got life-saving care at…

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