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Christa Pike is discharged from a hospital and back in prison after becoming the first person to survive lethal-injection drugs during an execution
Pike had been hospitalized since surviving two doses of pentobarbital as the state attempted to execute her on Sept. 30 for the 1995 beating and stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer.
By The Associated PressFortune AI

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Originally published by Fortune AI on Oct 10, 2026.
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