Christa Pike now walking after failed US execution, lawyer tells BBC

Pike was 18 and Shipp was 17 when they beat, tortured and killed 19-year-old Slemmer, whom they had met at a job training camp for troubled teens.In their updates on Pike's condition after the attempted execution, her team had previously said she was awake and speaking, and experiencing anger and confusion. She was said at that stage to be handcuffed to her bed. In the latest updates, given to the BBC, Ferrell said Pike was continuing to experience the after-effects of the drug pentobarbital, which was injected into her body in two doses by prison staff during the scheduled execution on 30 September. Once it became clear that Pike was not going to die, she was taken to hospital, where she was initially unconscious and declared to be in a critical condition.As of late on Tuesday, though, she was "fairly well", Ferrell told the BBC. "What's been described to me is that physically there's quite a bit going on, that her arms are very injured and she's not able to use them very much." Of her physical movements, he added: "She is up and walking for the first time today, but just around the room, not very far."