田纳西州官员周三晚上未能完成对克里斯塔·盖尔·派克的死刑执行；在法院审议一项最后时刻提出的上诉期间，给她注射致命药物的作业延误了数小时。派克因1995年的一起谋杀案被判处死刑，她原本将成为田纳西州至少200年来首位被执行死刑的女性。
Tennessee officials were unable to complete the execution of Christa Gail Pike on Wednesday night after her lethal injection was delayed for hours as courts considered a last-minute appeal. Pike, sentenced to death for a 1995 murder, would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in at least 200 years.
州长比尔·李在一份声明中表示，他已下令进行“全面、独立的第三方审查，以查明究竟发生了什么”，并暂停今年剩余时间原定的所有死刑执行。
Gov. Bill Lee said in a statement that he has ordered “a comprehensive, third-party review to determine exactly what occurred,” halting scheduled executions for the remainder of this year.
他说：“执行依法作出的刑罚是本州最严肃的职责之一，田纳西州人民期望以不仅合法、符合宪法，而且有效的方式来完成此事。”
“Carrying out a lawfully imposed sentence is among the State’s most serious responsibilities, and the people of Tennessee expect it to be done in a manner that is not only legal and constitutional, but is effective,” he said.
周三晚上早些时候，美国最高法院以分裂式裁决推翻了一项上诉法院的裁决；该裁决原本在预定执行前一小时叫停了致命注射。记者随后被引导进入执行室，目睹派克原定的死刑执行。执行开始后，官员似乎给派克注射了两剂戊巴比妥。
Earlier Wednesday night, reporters were ushered into the chamber to witness Pike’s scheduled execution after a divided U.S. Supreme Court overturned an appeals court ruling that had halted the lethal injection one hour before it was originally set to take place. As the execution began, officials appeared to give Pike two doses of pentobarbital.
晚上7时46分，监狱官员拉上了媒体室的帘子。三分钟后，他们又将帘子拉开。可以清楚听到派克大声打鼾。晚上8时06分，帘子再次被拉上。
At 7:46 p.m. prison officials closed the curtain to the media room. They raised the curtain three minutes later. Pike could be heard loudly snoring, and the curtain was closed again at 8:06 p.m.
据记者报道，在帘子拉上后，派克打鼾的声音一直持续到晚上8时53分左右麦克风被关闭为止。记者还看到派克的精神顾问被引导进出房间。大约在同一时间，官员宣布将护送媒体见证人员离开该区域。
Pike continued to be heard snoring behind the closed curtain until the microphone was cut off at about 8:53 p.m. Pike’s spiritual advisers were also seen being ushered in and out of the room, according to reporters. Around that time, officials announced that media witnesses would be escorted from the area.
田纳西州惩教署周三晚上发表声明 称，该署“严格遵循了总检察长办公室批准的死刑执行程序中的每一个步骤”。
The Tennessee Department of Correction released a statement Wednesday night, saying it “followed every step” of the execution protocol approved by the Attorney General’s Office.
该署表示：“程序中的致命注射药物一直都能发挥作用，除今晚实际执行的步骤外，该程序不允许增加任何其他操作。”田纳西州总检察长办公室没有立即回应MS NOW的置评请求。
“The lethal injection chemical in the protocol has consistently been effective, and the protocol does not allow for additional procedures beyond what was carried out this evening,” the department said. The Tennessee Attorney General’s Office did not immediately respond to MS NOW’s request for comment.
在新闻发布会上，目睹处决过程的记者们讲述了各自所见的情况，其中出现了一个共同的观察：派克被押离处决室时，看上去“非常明显地活着”。新闻发布会上，有人看到一辆救护车驶离该设施。
As reporters who witnessed the execution gave their accounts of the execution at a press conference, one common observation emerged: Pike appeared to be “very clearly alive” when they were escorted from the chamber. During the news conference, an ambulance was seen leaving the facility.
《纳什维尔旗帜报》记者斯蒂芬·黑尔说：“我再怎么强调，刚才发生的一切中有多少是在闭门之后进行的，都不为过。”
“I cannot emphasize enough how much of whatever just happened happened behind a closed curtain,” Nashville Banner reporter Stephan Hale said.
派克的律师周三深夜向美国最高法院提交紧急动议，要求立即停止并暂缓执行处决，称她正遭受“不必要的痛苦”，继续处决将侵犯她不受残酷和异常刑罚的权利。他们还在美国第六巡回上诉法院和地区法院提交了动议。
Lawyers for Pike filed an emergency motion late Wednesday with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to immediately halt and stay the execution, saying she was in “unnecessary agony” and that continuing it would violate her right to be executed free of cruel and unusual punishment. They also filed motions in the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals and district court.
该动议还主张，惩教署应立即开始采取救生措施：“不提供这种照护，构成对合法且严重医疗需求的故意漠视。”派克的律师周四清晨证实，由于派克已被送往附近一家医院接受治疗，所有动议均被驳回，并因已失去实际意义而不再审理。她的法律团队尚未获知她的情况。
The motion also asserted that the Department of Correction should begin lifesaving measures: “Failure to provide such care constitutes deliberate indifference to legitimate, serious medical needs.”Pike’s lawyers confirmed early Thursday morning that all motions had been denied and considered moot because Pike was transported to a nearby hospital, where she is receiving medical treatment. Her legal team had not been informed of her condition.
“今晚，田纳西州再次未能执行一项合法处决，”派克的律师在一份声明中说，“我们对自己的判断正确毫不幸乐，但派克女士提出的担忧被证明是真实的：静脉穿刺困难、血管破损、戊巴比妥质量退化，而在不可避免的问题发生时，现场又没有紧急医疗救助；这一切都在一套仍被保密程序笼罩的流程下发生。”
“Tonight the State of Tennessee once again failed to carry out a lawful execution,” Pike’s lawyers said in a statement. “We take no pleasure in being right, but the concerns raised by Ms. Pike proved to be true: difficult vein access, blown veins, degraded pentobarbital, no emergency medical care was available when things inevitably go wrong, all under a protocol that remains veiled in secrecy.
派克及其男友因在1995年刺死并殴打19岁的科琳·斯莱默而被判有罪。斯莱默是二人在诺克斯维尔一家职业培训机构的同学。该案之所以引起广泛关注，部分原因是在斯莱默遗体上刻有五芒星，犯罪现场的其他因素也在20世纪80年代和90年代的“撒旦恐慌”期间激起了人们对撒旦崇拜的恐惧。
Pike and her boyfriend were convicted of the fatal stabbing and beating in 1995 of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, their classmate at a job training facility in Knoxville. The case garnered widespread attention in part because a pentagram that was carved on Slemmer’s body and other elements of the crime stoked fears of Satan worship during the “satanic panic” of the 1980s and 1990s.
这是田纳西州今年第二次无法执行死刑：今年5月，州官员取消了注射致命药物处决托尼· carruthers的计划。他因1994年绑架并杀害三人而被判有罪；执行人员尝试了一个多小时，仍未能为其建立静脉输液通路以注射戊巴比妥。
It was the second time this year that Tennessee has been unable to carry out an execution: In May, state officials called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of kidnapping and killing three people in 1994, after executioners tried and failed for over an hour to place an IV to administer pentobarbital.