派克所经历的一切令人发指。没有人应该遭受这样的折磨，即使是那些犯下可怕罪行的人也不该如此。美国历史上，死刑执行失败的情况并不少见。
What happened to Pike was gruesome. No one deserves what she went through, not even those who commit horrible crimes Botched executions are nothing new in US history. In the era when hangings were common, some condemned people were decapitated.
在绞刑盛行的时代，有些被判死刑的人被斩首；后来，当电椅成为主流执行方式时，偶尔也会有人在电刑过程中丧生。
Later, when the electric chair was in vogue, every now and again, someone would catch fire during an electrocution.
而美国最新的执行方法——氮氧窒息法，也早已被证明极其不可靠。
And nitrogen hypoxia, the US’s newest execution method, has already proven notoriously unreliable.
然而，在所有我们尝试过的执行方式中，注射死刑的失败率最高，超过8%的注射死刑案例都出现了问题。大多数问题源于执行人员无法找到合适的静脉进行注射。
But, of all of the ways we have tried to execute people, lethal injection has the worst track record. More than 8% of all lethal injection executions have been botched. Most of them resulted when those charged with carrying them out could not find a usable vein.