克里斯塔·派克已经取得了“惊人的身体恢复”恢复意识她的律师周四告诉美国广播公司新闻，在田纳西州她拙劣的执行死刑后，尽管“还有很多认知上的不确定性”。
“我们还不确定长期影响，但她显然认知能力没有完全恢复正常，可能还有很长的路要走，”她的律师之一，田纳西州东部联邦辩护服务公司的斯蒂芬·费雷尔告诉ABC新闻。＂她经历了很多心理创伤，现在仍在忍受着。＂
“但她的身体状况正在显著改善，”他说。
派克，田纳西州死囚区唯一的女性，在1995年被判谋杀19岁少女后被判死刑科琳·斯莱默。在一系列最后时刻的法律挑战之后，她试图通过注射处死。
她的律师说，她被注射了两剂致命剂量的戊巴比妥后幸存了下来，并在9月30日纳什维尔执行死刑失败后住院。她的律师说，在试图执行死刑后，她最初使用呼吸机，然后在周二恢复意识。
“经历了这个过程，她受到了很大的创伤，”费雷尔说。＂当然，我们谈论的是一个遭受了一生创伤的人．＂
费雷尔说，派克正在想她的受害者的家人，“想知道他们经历了什么，这一定有多可怕。”
派克的律师周四在一份声明中表示，她“在注意力和记忆力方面面临认知挑战”，她的医生建议“可能需要几个月才能完全了解她是否遭受了持续的认知损伤。”
费雷尔补充道，“这就像是开始一个句子，然后就忘了她要去哪里。不是她没有意识到，而是她不太容易持有这种想法。”
她的律师周四表示，派克在医院病房的协助下四处走动，已经开始有规律的饮食，她的肺部也很清晰，尽管她继续感受到手臂烧伤的疼痛。
“这些都是相当严重的烧伤，以至于当她试图签署一些文件时，她很难拿起笔，写她的签名，”费雷尔说。“需要多长时间才能痊愈还不知道，因为这不是医生看到的一种非常常见的损伤，但他们确实看到注射部位周围有大量的组织损伤。”
50岁的派克被认为已经脑死亡，并将在她醒来的那一天“震惊所有人”，她的律师之一，田纳西州定罪后辩护人办公室的兰迪·斯皮维周三告诉记者。
斯皮维说当派克醒来的时候他不在房间里，但是他相信她说的第一句话是，“我在哪里，你是谁？”
“仍然有很多认知上的混乱，”斯皮维在新闻发布会上说。“我认为她现在对一切都很愤怒和困惑。”
派克的律师称她的康复是“医学上前所未有的”，并表示他们预计“康复之路漫长”据Spivey说，她患有肺炎，一只胳膊上有血块，她描述她的胳膊和手“非常肿胀”
她的律师周二表示，他们继续要求田纳西州州长比尔·李将她的刑期减为终身监禁，不得假释。
田纳西州惩教署周二证实，派克仍在住院治疗，但表示由于联邦隐私法，无法提供她的医疗状况的细节。
派克的律师上周在戴维森县衡平法院提出了一项紧急动议，寻求一项命令，要求田纳西州矫正局保留与处决企图有关的所有相关的物理、书面和电子证据。法官批准动议在周三的听证会上。
根据死刑信息中心的报道，派克是第一个在接受药物注射后幸存下来的人，该中心的执行主任称这次失败的尝试是“我们见过的最糟糕的，不像现代其他任何拙劣的处决。”
在拙劣的处决之后，州长李下令暂时停止该州和田纳西州惩教署专员弗兰克·斯特拉达预定的处决顺从的．
州长办公室在一份声明中表示，它还任命前美国司法部长埃德·斯坦顿（Ed Stanton）对田纳西州惩教部的处决尝试进行独立审查，“将寻求确定协议是否得到遵守，并考虑是否有必要提出额外的建议，以确保该州的协议继续合法有效。”
“该州此前在2022年聘请斯坦顿对田纳西州的致命注射协议进行独立审查。他的工作促使州政府和司法部长办公室在恢复执行死刑之前对协议进行了实质性的修改，”声明进一步说道。
Christa Pike seeing ＇remarkable physical recovery＇ but cognitive challenges remain： Lawyers
Christa Pike has made a ＂remarkable physical recovery＂ in the days since sheregained consciousnessfollowing her botched execution in Tennessee， though ＂there＇s a lot of cognitive uncertainty left，＂ her attorney told ABC News on Thursday．
＂We＇re not sure exactly of the long-term effects， but she＇s clearly cognitively not quite back to normal and may have a long ways to go，＂ one of her attorneys， Stephen Ferrell with Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee， told ABC News． ＂There＇s a lot of psychological trauma that she＇s going through and still suffering through．＂
＂But her physical state is improving remarkably，＂ he said．
Pike， the lone woman on Tennessee＇s death row， was sentenced to death after being convicted of the 1995 murder of 19-year-oldColleen Slemmer． Her attempted execution by lethal injection came after a series of last-minute legal challenges．
She survived being administered two lethal doses of pentobarbital and was hospitalized following the failed Sept． 30 execution in Nashville， her attorneys said． She was initially on a ventilator following the execution attempt before regaining consciousness on Tuesday， her attorneys said．
＂She＇s very traumatized， having gone through this process，＂ Ferrell said． ＂And of course， we＇re talking about a person who suffered a life of trauma．＂
Ferrell said Pike is thinking about her victim＇s family and ＂wonders what they＇ve been going through and how awful this must be．＂
Pike＇s attorneys said in a statement Thursday she has had ＂cognitive challenges with concentration and memory，＂ and that her doctors have advised that ＂it may take months to fully understand whether she sustained lasting cognitive injuries．＂
Ferrell added， ＂It＇s that sort of starting a sentence and losing track of where she was going． It＇s not that she＇s unaware， but that she doesn＇t hold the thought very easily．＂
Pike is walking with assistance around her hospital room， has started to get a regular diet and her lungs are clear， though she continues to experience pain from burns on her arms， her attorneys said Thursday．
＂These are some pretty severe burns， such that when she was trying to sign some papers， she was having a hard time holding a pen， writing her signature，＂ Ferrell said． ＂How long that will take to heal is still kind of unknown because this isn＇t a very common injury that doctors see， but they do see a significant amount of tissue damage around the injection sites．＂
Pike， 50， was believed to have been brain dead and was going to be taken off her life support the day that she woke up ＂to the shock of everyone，＂ one of her attorneys， Randy Spivey with the Tennessee Office of the Post Conviction Defender， told reporters Wednesday．
Spivey said he was not in the room at the time when Pike woke up， but he believes the first thing she said was， ＂Where am I and who are you？＂
＂There＇s still a lot of cognitive confusion，＂ Spivey said during a press briefing． ＂I think she is angry and confused about everything right now．＂
Pike＇s attorneys described her recovery as ＂medically unprecedented＂ and said they expect a ＂long road to recovery．＂ She has pneumonia and a blood clot in one of her arms， according to Spivey， who described her arms and hands as ＂tremendously swollen．＂
Her attorneys said Tuesday they continue to ask Tennessee Gov． Bill Lee to commute her sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole．
The Tennessee Department of Correction confirmed Tuesday that Pike remains hospitalized but said it could not provide details of her medical condition due to federal privacy laws．
Pike＇s attorneys filed an emergency motion in Davidson County Chancery Court last week seeking an order requiring the Tennessee Department of Correction to preserve all relevant physical， written and electronic evidence related to the execution attempt． A judgegranted the motionduring a hearing on Wednesday．
Pike is the first person reported to have survived lethal injection after being given medications， according to the Death Penalty Information Center， whose executive director referred to the failed attempt as ＂the worst we＇ve ever seen and unlike any other botched execution in the modern era．＂
In the wake of the botched execution， Gov． Lee ordered a temporary halt to scheduled executions in the state and Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Stradaresigned．
The governor＇s office said in a statement that it has also appointed former U．S． Attorney Ed Stanton to conduct an independent review of the Tennessee Department of Correction＇s execution attempt that ＂will seek to determine whether the protocol was followed and consider whether additional recommendations are necessary to ensure the State＇s protocol continues to be lawful and effective．＂
＂The State previously retained Stanton in 2022 to conduct an independent review of Tennessee＇s lethal injection protocol． His work prompted the State and Attorney General＇s Office to substantially rewrite the protocol before executions resumed，＂ the statement further said．
