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Christa Pike is back in prison after surviving a botched execution in Tennessee. The 50-year-old death row inmate was discharged from the hospital on Saturday, days after receiving two doses of the lethal injection drug pentobarbital during an execution attempt on September 30. Pike had been hospitalized in critical condition and was reportedly placed on a ventilator, with her attorneys fearing she might not survive. She is now back at the Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, where she had been held for 30 years. Her lawyers say she continues to receive medical care as she recovers. Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 beating and stabbing death of her classmate, Colleen Slemmer.