2007年12月4日，克里斯塔·派克进入田纳西州诺克斯维尔的诺克斯县刑事法院。摄影：J Miles Cary/路透社田纳西州在200年后首次暂停对一名女性的死刑执行。州长和最高法院此前拒绝了为30年前因谋杀罪被判刑的克里斯塔·派克赦免的请求。田纳西州200年来首次对女性执行死刑的计划于周三上午在执行预定时间前一小时被法院叫停。
Christa Pike entering a Knox county criminal court in Knoxville, Tennessee, on 4 December 2007. Photograph: J Miles Cary/Reuters Tennessee halts plan to execute woman for first time in 200 years State governor and supreme court earlier refused calls for clemency for Christa Pike, who was convicted of murder Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in 200 years was halted by a court on Wednesday morning an hour before it was set to take place.
州长和最高法院此前曾拒绝为克里斯塔·派克赦免的请求，她因30年前的谋杀罪被判刑。
The state governor and the supreme court had earlier refused calls for clemency in the case of Christa Pike who was convicted of murder 30 years ago.
她原定于周三东部时间上午11点接受注射死刑，但联邦上诉法院已暂停执行。
She was set to die by lethal injection at 11am ET on Wednesday but the execution has been halted by a federal appeals court.
现年50岁的派克在1995年与当时17岁的男友杀害了19岁的同学科琳·斯莱默，当时她18岁，两人均在诺克斯维尔的就业军械库（Job Corps）就读。美联社提供了部分报道。更多细节即将公布
Pike, who is now 50, was 18 when she and her boyfriend, who was 17 at the time, killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, one of their classmates at Knoxville Job Corps in 1995. The Associated Press contributed reporting. More details soon