Christa Pike was “kind and polite” and even tried to help her executioners during her botched lethal injection, her lawyer said.

The convicted murderer, 50, was rushed to hospital after surviving two doses of pentobarbital on Sept. 30 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville and regained consciousness Tuesday.

“Christa was at peace, she helped the execution team find what they thought was venous access,” her lawyer, Randy Spivey, told a press conference Wednesday.

“She was kind and polite as they worked for an hour, stabbing her arm with needle after needle, and then she felt the burn of the pentobarbital.”

Here’s the latest on the botched execution of Tennessee murderer Christa Pike:

Pike is believed to be the first death row inmate in US history to have survived after being given the lethal injection.

She was sentenced to death for the sadistic murder of her 19-year-old Job Corps classmate Colleen Slemmer in Jan. 1995, when she was 18.