Christa Pike's lawyer issue major update on her condition weeks after botched lethal injection

Christa Pike's attorney has provided an update on the convicted killer after she survived a botched execution last month.

Pike has been on death row for more than three decades after she was found guilty of murdering Colleen Slemmer in 1995.

She was set to be executed on September 30 but remarkably survived two doses of a lethal poison.

The convicted killer was left unconscious and in a critical condition.

Her lawyers said she was just hours from having her life support withdrawn, but she was reported to have been walking a day later.

An attorney for Pike has since told TMZ that Pike is continuing to improve physically and is walking more on her own.

The attorney went on to say that Pike is now able to communicate more clearly and is also now forming full sentences.

Pike's lawyers have spoken out (TDOC)

Pike's cognitive and psychological functioning are still being monitored, according to the attorney, while doctors will continue to monitor her health and determine if she's suffered any long-term effects from the botched execution.

Earlier this month, Pike's representatives confirmed she had been discharged from hospital and was continuing her recovery at Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center.

“She is grateful to the first responders and her medical team for their care in these extraordinary circumstances,” her lawyers said in a statement.

“She is continuing to receive medical care at the prison, and we will continue to track her recovery.”

Pike's lawyers have described her recovery as 'remarkable', while her legal team have also addressed the mental fallout from the botched execution.

“Christa is dealing with the profound psychological trauma of having survived a failed execution, including the terror, pain and uncertainty of believing she was about to die,” they said.

Christa Pike survived an execution (TDOC)

Pike and two others lured Colleen Slemmer to her death in the woods in Knoxville, with Slemmer beaten and stabbed before having a pentagram carved into her chest.

Pike became the youngest woman to be sentenced to death in US history when she was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, while she was set to be the first woman executed in Tennessee for over 200 years before the failed execution.

It remains unclear what will happen with Pike given the convicted killer is believed to be the only person to have survived an execution attempt by lethal injection.

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has ordered a pause on all executions for the rest of the year as an inquest into what went wrong was held.