Christa Pike, who survived a Tennessee execution attempt last week, is conscious and speaking as she receives treatment in hospital, her lawyers have said.

The statement from her lawyers is the first indication that Pike has improved since an ambulance took her from a Nashville prison last Wednesday.

Christa Pike is "angry and confused" after regaining consciousness almost six days after Tennessee's failed attempt to execute her, one of her lawyers has said.

A death row inmate who survived a botched execution last week is conscious and talking in hospital, according to her lawyers, who want to commute her death sentence to life imprisonment without parole.

Convicted murderer Christa Pike regained consciousness and began speaking Tuesday after surviving a botched execution by lethal injection. Pike, the first woman the state of Tennessee has attempted to…

Christa Pike, a Tennessee inmate who survived Tennessee's attempt to execute her, is awake and speaking as she receives treatment at a hospital, her attorneys said Tuesday.

Christa Pike is awake and speaking after surviving an attempt to execute her in Tennessee. Executioners tried twice to administer lethal doses of pentobarbital on Sept. 30.

The lawyer said he was told Pike’s first words when she woke up were ‘Where am I?’ and ‘Who are you?’.

Her lawyers said she has pneumonia, severe swelling and difficulty eating and moving her arms, while Tennessee has suspended executions for the rest of the year.

Convicted murderer Christa Pike has reportedly regained consciousness and can now speak following her botched execution.

Christa Pike has a “long road to recovery” after Tennessee’s failed execution attempt that left her unconscious and on life support, her lawyer said.

Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital as Tennessee officials attempted to put her to death for the 1995 beating and stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer.

Christa Pike has regained consciousness and is speaking a week after receiving two doses of execution drugs in Tennessee.

Christa Pike survived a failed lethal injection and is now awake and speaking in hospital, though her lawyers say she suffered severe injuries and faces a long recovery.

Christa Pike’s lawyers believe problems placing IV lines during her failed execution caused the lethal drug pentobarbital to enter her tissue rather than her bloodstream.Executioners attempted...