Christa Pike, who has regained consciousness and is speaking a week Tennessee failed to execute her, is believed to be the only person to survive after receiving lethal injection drugs during an execution. But Pike is not the first inmate to survive a botched execution attempt. There have been dozens of botched executions before Pike, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, and seven cases in recent decades where executioners failed to kill someone with their intended method. Three out of the seven inmates of documented failed executions died years later in prison, due to cancer or illness like COVID-19. Two were executed after their failed execution with a different method, and two remain alive and on death row.