A Nashville judge on Thursday reopened Christa Pike's lawsuit against Tennessee's lethal injection method. The move comes eight days after Pike survived two doses of the drug pentobarbital in the state's execution chamber.

Pike, 50, filed the suit in January. It says the state's one-drug method is unconstitutional for her, in part because her small veins make needles hard to place. The state argued the case belonged in a different court. It was sent to the Tennessee Supreme Court, which dismissed it without ruling on the claims, FOX 17 in Nashville reported.

Chancellor I'Ashea Myles put the case back on her docket. She noted the state had told the U.S. Supreme Court that Pike's suit was still pending. Myles wrote that Pike had shown "extreme, unique, exceptional, or extraordinary circumstances," the New York Post reported. The ruling does not find the method unlawful. It only lets the challenge go forward.

Myles also ordered both sides to file details about Pike's hospital restraints and her lawyers' access to her by noon Friday. Her lawyers said her handcuffs have been taken off, but one foot is still shackled to the bed.

Pike is "up and walking for the first time today, but just around the room, not very far," lawyer Stephen Ferrell told the BBC late Wednesday. He said her arms are badly hurt and she is "somewhat foggy." Another lawyer said she has pneumonia and a blood clot, The Guardian reported. Her team says there could be lasting damage.

Pike was 18 when she and her boyfriend tortured and killed classmate Colleen Slemmer in 1995. Gov. Bill Lee has paused executions for the rest of the year and ordered an outside review. The state's prisons chief is resigning, the BBC reported. At a Wednesday hearing, a state lawyer could not say whether Pike's execution will be reset.

Texas executed a man with the same drug on Wednesday after courts refused to stop it.

What we know: Pike's challenge to the drug method is back in court, and her execution is on hold.
What we don't: Whether Tennessee will try again, and how much use of her arms she will regain.