派克目前虽有生命迹象但处于危急状态，专家称周三在田纳西州发生的行刑过程“极其野蛮”。
在田纳西州试图处决克里斯塔·派克失败，导致囚犯虽存活但处于危急状态并正在接受抢救后，顶尖律师、医生和宗教界人士纷纷呼吁暂停美国的死刑制度。
Pike alive but in critical condition as experts call ordeal that unfolded in Tennessee Wednesday ‘unimaginably barbaric’ Top lawyers, doctors and members of the faith community are calling for a moratorium on the US death penalty after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute Christa Pike left the prisoner alive but in critical condition and receiving life-saving medical care.
近期，美国各死刑州发生了一系列令人毛骨悚然的行刑失败事件，而周三晚间田纳西州州长比尔·李（Bill Lee）在派克被注射了两整针戊巴比妥钠后叫停行刑，使这一情况降至新低。
The recent spate of harrowingly botched executions across US death penalty states reached a new low late on Wednesday when Tennessee’s governor Bill Lee called off the procedure after Pike had been injected with two full syringes of pentobarbital.
她是唯一在被注射5毫克镇静剂后幸存下来的人——在正常情况下，这一剂量被认为是致命的。
She is the only person to have survived being administered 5mg of the sedative – a massive dose that under normal circumstances is considered fatal.