Source: New York Post
Tennessee’s botched execution survivor Christa Pike remains so badly injured that she requires round-the-clock medical care — and the state is fighting her demands to move into a more comfortable prison unit, new federal court filings reveal. More than five weeks after surviving two lethal injections, the convicted killer is still being closely monitored by doctors who cannot say when she will be well enough to leave the prison infirmary. In a blistering response filed Wednesday to Pike’s emergency transfer motion, Tennessee officials urged a federal judge to reject Pike’s Pike’s emergency motion to be transferred out of the medical unit, arguing that her injuries and maximum-security status make the move both dangerous and inappropriate.
