Convicted murderer Krista Peck “up and walked” for the first time on Wednesday, a week after she endured multiple rounds of lethal injection in a Tennessee prison.
Pike, who brutally tortured and murdered 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995, has been in the hospital since officials failed to carry out the planned execution on Sept. 30. her lawyer stephen ferrell. Tell The BBC said on Wednesday that Pike was doing “pretty well”.
“From what I’ve described, there were a lot of changes in her physical condition, and her arms were badly injured and she couldn’t use them regularly,” he said. “She was up and walking for the first time today, but just around the room, not very far.”
The lawyer added that Pike remained “confused.”
“I think it’s both good and bad. The good thing is that she’s okay with it, but she’s also a little confused. It’s easy for her to lose her train of thought and forget where she’s going.”
Ferrell’s comments about Packer moving around the hospital room came after he said earlier this week that Packer was “handcuffed and handcuffed to the bed.”
In 1996, Pike and her then-boyfriend Ta’Daryl Shipp were convicted of inviting Slimer to kill her in the woods near Knoxville, where they slit her throat and attacked her with a meat cleaver and a piece of asphalt. They also carved a five-pointed star on her forehead and chest. according to Court documents. Pike also kept a piece of Slimer’s skull and bragged about the kill.
Slimer’s mother, Mae Martinez, said she was denied “justice for my daughter” after Pike’s failed execution. She said Pike never apologized for her horrific behavior.
“It doesn’t matter what I think,” Martinez told WBIR, when asked if she thought Pike would be executed. “They’re going to do what they’re going to do.”
After the execution failed, Tennessee’s Republican Governor Bill Lee suspended all executions in Tennessee until the end of the year and ordered an investigation into what went wrong. In the meantime, Pike’s attorneys want the state to preserve all evidence of the execution to deal with any future challenges.
Attorney Luke Ihnen argued: “The state has not promised that Miss Pike will not be subject to future executions by us, and the evidence we now seek to preserve is relevant to any future challenge by her.”
Nashville Premier Ashiah Myers on Wednesday directed the state to preserve all evidence.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who is running for governor, is calling on Tennessee to abandon lethal injection and start using the electric chair as its primary method of execution.