Christa Pike has handcuffs removed but remains shackled after surviving execution

Christa Pike has handcuffs removed but remains shackled after surviving execution Christa Pike's handcuffs have been removed as she recovers in hospital treatment following a failed execution attempt in Tennessee last week Christa Pike has had her handcuffs removed as she receives hospital treatment following a botched execution attempt in Tennessee - although she remains shackled to her bed, according to her legal team. The 50-year-old convicted murderer regained consciousness on Tuesday after surviving two doses of the lethal drug pentobarbital on September 30. Pike's lawyer Randy Spivey told a news conference on Wednesday that she woke up "angry and confused" and that her first words were "Where am I?" and "Who are you?". He added that her apparent recovery has come as a "shock" to everyone as her legal team had been told on Monday that she was brain dead. In a court filing on Thursday, following a visit to Pike the previous day, her attorney Luke Ihnen said: "Ms. Pike’s handcuffs have been removed; however, one foot remains shackled to the bed." "Ms. Pike is under guard by three, armed corrections officers," he said. "Ms. Pike is not an escape risk. Nor is she physically capable of doing so." Hours before the failed execution attempt last week, the US Supreme Court cleared the way for Pike to be the first woman to die by lethal injection in the southern US state of Tennessee in more than 200 years. Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. She was 18 when she and her then-boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, killed Colleen at a job training camp in Knoxville, Tennessee. Pike was scheduled to be executed at 10am CDT (4pm BST) at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, where witnesses were present to observe the administration of the injections. However, Pike survived the attempt, in what experts say is the first case of a US inmate surviving an execution by lethal injection. A court in Nashville, Tennessee, ordered state officials on Wednesday to preserve all evidence relating to Pike’s failed execution. State officials have yet to publicly explain what went wrong during the execution attempt. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee ordered a review of the state's execution procedures and indefinitely postponed Pike's execution and another one scheduled for later this year. Other Republican political leaders in Tennessee said the state should review whether to stop using single-drug lethal injections and consider other options to carry out death sentences.