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Christa Pike walking and speaking in full sentences after botched execution in Tennessee

The 50-year-old death row inmate has returned to the women's prison where she has spent more than 30 years, but doctors are still assessing the potential long-term effects of the failed lethal injection

What is known about the lethal injection that failed to kill Pike: the drug Biden’s administration pulled and the protocol gap

Tennessee's attempt to execute Christa Pike with two doses of pentobarbital failed to kill her, exposing a gap in the state's protocol and reviving scrutiny of a drug the Biden administration had moved to withdraw

The five most addictive substances on Earth & what they do to your brain

This is what addiction experts have to say