From ‘brain dead’ to walking & talking – the ‘poison paradox’ that helped Christa Pike beat executioner’s needle

CHRISTA Pike may have survived two rounds of lethal injection drugs because of a bizarre paradox that saw the drug fail to kill her while potentially helping protect her brain, a medical expert has claimed.Death row inmate Pike, 50, was administered pentobarbital during her botched execution in Tennessee before the procedure was called off.