金·钱德勒 田纳西州纳什维尔——克里斯塔·派克原定于被执行死刑。但在接受两次注射后，她仍在呼吸。她发出打鼾声，说话，并说自己的手臂很痛。
KIM CHANDLER NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Christa Pike was scheduled to be executed. But after two injections, she kept breathing. She made snoring sounds, she talked, she said her arm was hurting.
派克因1995年折磨并杀害19岁的科琳·斯勒默而被判处死刑。在她预定执行的死刑注射开始时，她表示自己内心平静。
Pike, sentenced to die for torturing and killing 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995, said as her scheduled lethal injection began that she was at peace. Strapped to a gurney around 7:30 p.m.
周三晚上7点30分左右，派克被绑在推车上。她被允许发表最后陈述，称自己带着爱离开这个世界。
Wednesday, Pike, who was allowed to give a final statement, said she was leaving the world with love. “I’m ready to be free,” she said.
“我准备好自由了，”她说，“这是一个快乐的日子。”现年50岁的派克在实施谋杀时年仅18岁，她本将成为田纳西州200多年来首位被执行死刑的女性。
This is a happy day.”Pike, now 50, was 18 when she committed the murder and would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years.
但她却从本应致其死亡的两剂戊巴比妥钠中幸存下来。她乘坐救护车而非灵车离开了监狱。
But instead she survived two doses of the pentobarbital meant to kill her. She left the prison in an ambulance instead of a hearse.
美联社是目睹此次执行失败的人员之一。当监狱官员在晚上7点27分拉开执行室的帘子时，她已经被绑在推车上，手臂上插着静脉输液管。
The Associated Press was among those who witnessed her failed execution. She was already strapped to the gurney, with IV inserted in her arm, when prison officials raised the curtain to the execution room at 7:27 p.m.
她的灵性顾问站在推车旁靠近她头部的位置。他跟她说话，他们唱了一首歌。歌词听不清，但包含重复的短语——“我爱你”。灵性顾问抚摸着她的额头。
Her spiritual adviser was standing beside the gurney near her head. He spoke to her. They sang a song. The lyrics were not audible, but included repeating the phrase — “I love you.”
时间一分一秒地过去。她抬起头环顾四周，露出了微笑。然后她说手臂很痛，并询问在场的一名监狱官员，这种感觉是否正常。
The spiritual adviser stroked her forehead. Minutes ticked by. She raised her head and looked around; she smiled.
十分钟后的晚上7点37分，她叹了口气。她手臂上的静脉输液管连接着位于死刑室相邻控制室的设备，两者之间由一个台面隔开。晚上7点41分，一个大约高尔夫球大小的石头或镇纸被放在台面上。监狱官员尚未确认其含义，但其放置时间似乎与规程中的指示相吻合，该指示称在药物注射后，开始五分钟倒计时，直至帘子关闭。
Then she said her arm was hurting and asked a prison official in the room if it was supposed to feel that way. Ten minutes in, at 7:37 p.m., she sighed, the IV in her arm fed from a control room adjacent to the death chamber, separated by a ledge. At 7:41 p.m., a rock or paper weight about the size of a golf ball was placed on the ledge. Prison officials have not confirmed what it means, but its placement appeared to coincide with a direction in the protocol that says after the drugs are administered, a five-minute countdown begins until the curtain is closed.
晚上7点46分，官员们拉上了帘子，遮挡了证人观察死刑室的视线。派克的灵性顾问离开死刑室，在媒体证人室与她的律师短暂会面。
At 7:46 p.m., officials closed the curtain, blocking the witnesses’ view of the death chamber. Pike’s spiritual adviser left the chamber and sat briefly with her attorney in the media witness room.
三分钟后，帘子再次升起。田纳西州的注射死刑规程规定，如果囚犯在第一轮注射后未死亡，需进行第二轮戊巴比妥钠注射。
The curtain rose again three minutes later. The Tennessee lethal injection protocol calls for a second round of pentobarbital if the inmate is not deceased after the first round.
她的灵性顾问返回死刑室，双手合十站在派克身旁。派克在某个时刻似乎开始失去意识，并发出类似打鼾的声音。在接下来的一个小时里，她持续发出这种声音，表明她在预期死亡时间之后很久仍然存活。
Her spiritual adviser returned to the chamber and stood beside Pike with his hands folded. Pike appeared to begin to lose consciousness at some point and started making a sound like snoring. She continued to do so for the next hour, a sign that she was alive long after she was expected to be dead.
晚上7点56分左右，她的头略微抬离担架，转向一侧。她仍在呼吸。晚上8点06分，官员们再次拉上了帘子。
Her head raised slightly off the gurney and turned to the side at about 7:56 p.m. She kept breathing. Officials closed the curtain again at 8:06 p.m.
在接下来的40分钟里，人们能听到帘子后面派克的声音。她听起来像是在打鼾，呈现出有节奏、规律的呼吸模式。
For the next 40 minutes, Pike could be heard from behind the curtain. She sounded like she was snoring, a rhythmic, regular breathing pattern.
在监狱内，派克的律师兰迪·斯派维后来向媒体表示，大约在晚上8点22分，他要求使用电话联系团队中的其他律师。他说，他要求停止执行死刑，并为派克提供挽救生命的医疗护理。他表示，他在晚上8点50分左右得到确认，救护车正在赶来。
Inside the prison, Pike’s attorney, Randy Spivey, later told the media that at about 8:22 p.m. he demanded access to a telephone to contact other lawyers on the team. He said he demanded the execution be halted and that life-saving medical care be given to Pike. He said he received confirmation at about 8:50 p.m. that an ambulance was on the way.
晚上8点53分，广播响起：“请证人离开该区域。”媒体人员被护送出去，监狱发言人表示她没有任何关于所发生事情的信息可以提供。
At 8:53 p.m., an announcement came: “Will witnesses please exit the area.”The media was escorted out, and a prison spokesperson said she had no information to provide about what had happened.
晚上9点14分左右，消防车和救护车抵达监狱门前。派克的律师随后发表声明称，她已被送往医院接受治疗，但他们不清楚其具体病情。周四下午，他们表示她正处于危重状态，正在接受医疗护理。田纳西州惩教局发表声明称，该局遵循了相关规程。
Fire trucks and ambulances arrived in front of the prison at around 9:14 p.m. Pike’s attorneys later issued a statement that she had been taken to a hospital and was being treated, though they did not know the specifics of her condition. On Thursday afternoon, they said she was in critical condition receiving medical care. The Tennessee Department of Correction issued a statement saying the department followed protocol.
该机构在声明中写道：“方案中使用的注射死刑药物一直有效，且该方案不允许进行超出今晚所执行步骤之外的额外操作。”“克里斯塔·派克已被转移至一处场外医疗机构。”该机构未说明具体出了什么问题。这是田纳西州今年第二次未能完成死刑执行，而在另一起案件中，由于官员们无法找到合适的静脉以建立静脉输液通道，导致药物未能注入。
“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 agency wrote. “Christa Pike has been transported to an off-site medical facility.”The agency has not said what went wrong. It was the second time this year that Tennessee has been unable to complete an execution, though in the other case, officials couldn’t find a suitable vein for an IV line so the drugs weren’t administered.
比尔·李州长下令展开调查，并推迟了原定今年晚些时候进行的另一次死刑执行，称在行刑室发生的事件“令人深感不安”。斯莱默的母亲梅·马丁内斯曾前往纳什维尔，以亲眼见证判决的执行。“我没有为我的女儿讨回公道，”马丁内斯在电话中告诉美联社。
Gov. Bill Lee ordered a review and postponed another execution scheduled for later this year, calling what happened in the death chamber “deeply disturbing.”Slemmer’s mother, May Martinez, had traveled to Nashville to see the sentence carried out. “I didn’t get justice for my daughter,” Martinez told the AP by telephone.
“我全程都看着。她是清醒的，”马丁内斯说。“她在动头，也在动脚。她试图坐起来。第一次注射没有起作用。第二次也没有起作用，所以她现在在医院，还活着。”“这对科琳来说不是正义。”
“I watched the whole thing. She was awake,” Martinez said. “She was moving her head, moving her feet. She was trying to sit up. Didn’t work the first time they gave her a shot. It didn’t work the second time so she’s in the hospital and alive.”“This isn’t justice for Colleen.”