Tennessee failed to execute Christa Pike. Now she’s conscious.

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  Good morning.

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  Lawyers for the woman who survived two lethal injections in Tennessee offer a stunning update.

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  "We got word from her attorneys that she has actually regained consciousness and is speaking now.

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  So that brings forth a whole nother layer of questions."

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  Why mass protests have erupted in France,

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  and what one German outlet referred to as the biggest espionage scandal of the century.

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  It's Wednesday, October 7th.

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  I'm Gideon Resnick.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  Please be advised this segment describes an attempted execution.

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  Less than a week after Tennessee failed to execute Christa Pike, she is awake.

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  That's according to her attorneys, who described her recovery as medically unprecedented.

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  She's believed to be the only person to have survived a lethal injection.

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  The attorneys' statement says that her prognosis remains unclear and that at a minimum, they expect a long recovery.

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  Pike was sentenced to death for torturing and murdering a woman back in 1995.

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  The botched execution has so far forced the resignation of Tennessee's prisons chief.

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  But there have been calls for more accountability,

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  and there are still a lot of questions about how things went so terribly wrong.

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  A court hearing is scheduled today,

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  where Pike's attorneys plan to ask for the preservation of evidence from the attempted execution.

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