田纳西州官员周三未能对Christa Pike执行死刑，她因1995年的一起谋杀案被判死刑，官员给她注射了两剂致死药物。一位死刑专家称这是前所未有的失败。
Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Pike to death on Wednesday for a 1995 murder after administering two doses of a lethal drug. A death penalty expert said it was an unprecedented failure.
Pike的律师称，在尝试注射死刑后，Pike仍然活着并大声打呼噜，随后被救护车从监狱送走。“我们尚未获知她的状况，”Pike的律师在一份声明中表示。
Pike was alive and loudly snoring after the attempted lethal injection and was taken by ambulance from the prison, her lawyers said. “We have not been informed as to her condition,” Pike’s lawyers said in a statement.
现年50岁的Pike原定于周三上午11点执行死刑，罪行是她18岁时所犯。她本将成为200多年来田纳西州首位被处决的女性。上诉法院在执行开始前仅一小时叫停了注射死刑，数小时后美国最高法院推翻了该暂停令。
Pike, 50, had been scheduled for execution at 11am on Wednesday for the killing she committed at age 18 and would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years. An appeals court stopped the lethal injection just an hour before it was to start and hours later the US Supreme Court overturned that stay.
根据Pike律师周三晚提交的法庭文件，官员给Pike注射了两剂戊巴比妥。死刑信息中心执行主任Robin M. Maher表示，Pike所经历的是“独一无二且前所未有的”。
Officials gave Pike two doses of pentobarbital, her lawyers said in court filings late Wednesday. Robin M. Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Centre, said what Pike experienced is “singular and unparalleled”.
她表示，此前有七人因执行团队无法找到静脉注射致死药物而存活，但从未有人在接受此类处决所用药物后仍然存活。
Seven other people have survived medical problems due to the execution team’s failure to access a vein to administer lethal injection drugs, but no one has stayed alive after receiving the drugs used in such executions, she said.
Pike的律师表示：“我们为被证明是对的而不感到欣慰，但Pike女士提出的担忧被证实是真实的：静脉难以寻找、血管破裂、戊巴比妥变质、出现问题时无紧急医疗护理可用，所有这些都在一个笼罩在秘密中的协议下发生。”
Pike’s lawyers said: “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 available when things inevitably go wrong, all under a protocol that remains veiled in secrecy”.
在单独房间观察的媒体见证人称，官员于晚上7点27分拉开处决室的帷幕，显示Pike被绑在担架上。
Media witnesses observing from a separate room said officials raised curtains to the execution chamber at 7.27pm, showing Pike strapped to a gurney.
Pike保持清醒，一度抬起头询问狱方官员她的手臂是否应该有那种感觉。不清楚她指的是什么。到晚上8点26分，执行见证人报告称第二剂戊巴比妥已被注射。
Pike remained awake and at one point raised her head and asked prison officials if her arm was supposed to feel that way. It was not clear what she was referencing. By 8.26pm, execution witnesses reported that the second dose of pentobarbital had been administered.
皮克在关闭的帷幕后继续发出打呼噜的声音，直到晚上8点53分麦克风被切断。当时有广播宣布护送媒体见证人离开现场。
Pike continued to be heard snoring behind the closed curtain until the microphone was cut off at 8.53pm. At that time there was an announcement to escort media witnesses out of the area.
周三晚间，皮克的律师向美国最高法院提交紧急动议，寻求立即暂停并中止执行死刑，称她正处于“不必要的痛苦”之中，这侵犯了她免受残酷和非常规惩罚而被处决的权利。他们还在第六巡回法院和地区法院提交了动议。
Lawyers for Pike filed an emergency motion late Wednesday to the US Supreme Court seeking to immediately halt and stay the execution, saying she was in “unnecessary agony” and it was violating her right to be executed free of cruel and unusual punishment. They also filed motions in the Sixth Circuit Court and district court.
该动议还主张矫正部门应开始实施救命措施。“不提供此类护理构成对合法、严重医疗需求的故意漠视。”皮克和她的男友因于1995年致命刺杀并殴打19岁的科琳·斯莱默而被定罪，斯莱默是他们在诺克斯维尔一家职业培训设施的同学。此案部分因为斯莱默身上被刻有五角星，以及犯罪的其他要素在1980年代和1990年代的“撒旦恐慌”期间煽动了对撒旦崇拜的恐惧，从而引起了广泛关注。
The motion also asserted that the Department of Correction should begin life-saving measures. “Failure to provide such care constitutes deliberate indifference to legitimate, serious medical needs.”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 of 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。5月，州官员取消了托尼·卡鲁瑟斯的注射死刑，他在1994年因绑架并杀害三人被定罪，此前执行人员尝试了一个多小时未能建立静脉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.
皮克原定于上午被处决，见证人已聚集在纳什维尔的河湾最高安全监狱，这时美国第六巡回上诉法院以2比1投票决定发布暂停令。该法院表示，需要延期以考虑皮克关于童年遭受性虐待的指控在判刑时是否得到了充分考虑。
Pike was initially scheduled to be put to death in the morning, and witnesses had gathered at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville when the 6th Circuit US Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to issue a stay. That court said a delay was needed to consider whether Pike’s allegations of childhood sexual abuse were fully considered at her sentencing.
根据死刑信息中心的数据，自1976年最高法院恢复死刑以来，已有18名女性被处决，约占所有处决的1%。
Since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, 18 women have been put to death, representing about 1 per cent of all executions, according to the Death Penalty Information Centre.
皮克本应成为美国今年第30名被执行死刑的人；佛罗里达州在周二执行了死刑后，皮克的死刑执行计划也随之成为现实。
Pike would have been the 30th person executed in the US this year after Florida carried out an execution on Tuesday.
田纳西州于2024年宣布，将不再使用三种药物组合来进行死刑注射，而是改用单一药物——戊巴比妥。这一决定是在该州突然中止奥斯卡·史密斯的死刑执行，并承认其未能确保用于死刑注射的药物经过充分检测两年多之后作出的。（
Tennessee announced in 2024 that it was switching from a three-drug series for lethal injections to the single drug pentobarbital. That came more than two years after the state abruptly halted the execution of Oscar Smith and acknowledged that it had failed to ensure its lethal injection drugs were tested properly. By Associated Press