田纳西州联邦参议员玛莎·布莱克本（共和党）周四呼吁田纳西州恢复使用电椅执行死刑。此前一天，死刑犯克里斯塔·派克经受两针致死注射后仍然生还。
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Thursday called on Tennessee to reintroduce the electric chair for executions after death-row prisoner Christa Pike survived two lethal injections the day before.
作为“志愿者之州”州长选举的共和党候选人，布莱克本将这次执行失误称为“悲剧”，并表示此事延长了本案受害者的哀痛过程。
Blachburn, who is the GOP nominee in the Volunteer State’s gubernatorial race, called the botched execution “tragic” and said it prolonged the grief process for victims in this case.
“尽管应当彻底调查发生了什么以及这一程序为何失败，但答案很简单：恢复使用电椅，迅速为这些受害者伸张正义，”这位参议员在社交媒体上写道，“如果我成为州长，我就会这么做。”派克供认自己于1995年在田纳西州诺克斯维尔杀害了19岁的科琳·斯莱默，因此被判定一级谋杀罪。
“While there should be a thorough review of what happened and why the process failed, the answer is simple: bring back the electric chair and deliver justice for these victims swiftly,” the senator wrote on social media. “As your governor, I will do just that.”Pike was convicted of first-degree murder after she confessed to the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville, Tenn.
检方称，斯莱默被骗至田纳西大学农业校区附近一座废弃的蒸汽厂，遭到派克和这名囚犯当时的男友塔达里尔·希普殴打、折磨并杀害。希普案发时年仅17岁，不符合死刑适用条件，去年被判处终身监禁，假释申请也被驳回。
Prosecutors said Slemmer was lured to an abandoned steam plant near the University of Tennessee Agricultural campus and beaten, tortured and killed by Pike and the inmate’s then-boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp. Shipp was not eligible for the death penalty since he was 17 at the time of the crime, and he was sentenced to life in prison and denied parole last year.
周三晚间田纳西州的致死注射程序发生失误后，州长比尔·李（共和党）下令至少将派克的处决推迟到明年，以便开展独立调查。
Following the state’s botched lethal injection process on Wednesday evening, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) ordered Pike’s execution to be delayed until at least next year to allow for an independent investigation to take place.
今年早些时候，该州行刑人员因未能找到可用于注射致死药物的静脉，未能对死囚托尼·卡拉瑟斯执行死刑。李批准暂缓执行此案一年。
Earlier this year, state executioners failed to execute death row inmate Tony Carruthers after they failed to find a vein for a lethal injection. Lee granted a one-year reprieve in this case.
孟菲斯市议会成员、州长竞选民主党候选人杰里·格林发表声明，反驳了布莱克本恢复使用电椅的主张。
Memphis City Council member Jerri Green, the Democratic nominee in the governor’s race, pushed back on Blackburn’s call to bring back the electric chair in a statement.
“药物检测的过程缺乏透明度，相关人员也缺乏专业资质和道德素养；事实上，死刑从来就是一种不人道、成本高昂且充满偏见的惩罚方式，”她在社交媒体上写道。“玛莎·布莱克本（Marsha Blackburn）竟然想要重新恢复电椅这种极其残忍的死刑执行方式。”格林表示，如果她当选为该州的最高官员，她会立即暂停所有未来的死刑执行。
“There is a lack of transparency around drug testing, as well as qualified and ethical personnel—but the fact of the matter is: the death penalty has always been inhumane, expensive, and biased,” she wrote on social media. “And Marsha Blackburn wants to bring back one of the most cruel forms of capital punishment, the electric chair.”Green noted she would “put a moratorium on all future executions” if elected to the state’s top office.
“如果我们声称自己支持‘生命权’，那就意味着我们必须反对死刑，”这位民主党人士补充道。
“If we say we are pro-life, that means we must be anti-death penalty,” the Democrat added.
派克（Pike）是田纳西州死刑犯名单上的唯一女性，她本将成为该州200多年来首位被执行死刑的女性。
Pike is the sole woman on Tennessee’s death row, and she would have been the first woman to be executed in the state in over 200 years.
她的死刑执行原本被美国第六巡回上诉法院在最后一刻下达的暂缓执行命令所推迟，但这一命令后来被最高法院撤销了；最高法院的三位自由派大法官对此决定表示反对。
Her scheduled execution was initially delayed by an 11th-hour stay order from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which was later lifted by the Supreme Court. The high court’s three liberal justices dissented in this decision.
在周三那次失败的死刑执行尝试之后，多个民间权益组织呼吁该州废除死刑制度。
Advocacy groups called on the state to abolish the death penalty following the Wednesday botched execution attempt.
联合国人权事务高级专员沃尔克·特尔克（Volker Türk）在周四的声明中呼吁州政府“不要再试图执行对派克的死刑”。
United Nations Human Rights Chief Volker Türk called on state authorities “not to pursue any further attempt to execute Pike” in a Thursday statement.
“多次失败的死刑执行尝试给她带来了长期的身体和心理折磨，这种行为实在令人发指且极其残忍，”特尔克表示，“而且关于公正审判的问题至今仍未得到解决。”
“The prolonged suffering — physical and mental — arising from multiple failed execution attempts is abhorrent, and cruel,” Türk said. “And there are key fair trial questions still unresolved.”