Christa Pike leaves hospital, returns to Tennessee prison 10 days after surviving her execution

What we’re less sure of4 of 8 claims

• Medium

  Pike, 50, will keep getting medical care at Nashville's Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center.

  This is an ongoing-care commitment that the story explicitly attributes to Pike's lawyers ('her lawyers said Saturday'). Several outlets carry it.

• Medium

  Tennessee has not said whether it will try to execute her again.

  The story asserts this absence of a state statement without attribution. The Guardian reports no official explanation, and the hearing transcript shows the required court order is not pending, so the sources broadly support it. It is still a negative claim about the state's silence.

• Medium

  By Oct. 9 Pike could walk only with help, and her memory was impaired.

  The memory impairment is attributed to her lawyers, an interested party. The mobility detail sits in the same sentence but is not separately sourced in the story.

• Medium

  The Death Penalty Information Center says Pike is the only person known to have survived a U.S. execution attempt.

  The claim is attributed to DPIC, but the story's broad wording conflicts with the desk's own sources. The Cardozo inventory lists eight execution survivors, and the sources name Willie Francis, Romell Broom, Doyle Lee Hamm-era cases such as Creech and Smith, and Carruthers. The sources also cite a '