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Christa Pike is walking with help and eating after failed execution attempt

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Christa Pike is walking with help and eating after failed execution attempt

Pike has begun walking and eating again at a hospital a week after surviving Tennessee's attempt to execute her with lethal drugs, her attorneys said Thursday.

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