田纳西州周三晚间对死囚克里斯塔·派克（Christa Pike）实施注射死刑的失败尝试，不仅让她的执行陷入危机，据1995年监督逮捕她谋杀19岁少女科琳·斯莱默（Colleen Slemmer）的前诺克斯维尔警察局长透露，这甚至可能导致该州彻底废除死刑。
Tennessee's failed attempt to lethally inject 30-year death row inmate Christa Pike Wednesday evening has not only put her execution in jeopardy, it may lead to the state taking capital punishment off the table altogether, according to the former Knoxville police chief who oversaw her arrest in the murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995.
“我会感到惊讶，如果在可预见的将来，甚至永远，田纳西州都不再有任何执行死刑的案例，”1988年至2004年领导诺克斯维尔警察局的菲尔·基思（Phil Keith）周四在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示。
"I'll be surprised if there are any executions in Tennessee in the near term, if again, ever," Phil Keith, who led Knoxville's police department from 1988 until 2004, told Fox News Digital.
在原定于9月30日执行死刑前几天，派克因最后一刻的上诉、请求特赦、要求采用替代死刑方式以及要求由全女性执行小组执行而引起全国关注。随后，对她实施注射死刑的失败尝试成为了主导新闻。
Pike attracted national attention in the days before her scheduled execution on Sept. 30 with a last-minute appeal, a petition for clemency and requests for alternate modes of capital punishment and a team of all-female executioners. Then the botched attempts to lethally inject her became the dominant story.
克里斯塔·派克律师称她在失败注射后情况危急 所有这些都使关注点从受害者身上转移开了，基思说。
CHRISTA PIKE'S ATTORNEYS SAY SHE'S IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER BOTCHED LETHAL INJECTIONS All of that took attention away from the victim, Keith said.
“我们为什么不谈谈科琳潜在的未来、她的生活，你知道，深入挖掘她的家庭，谈谈她想要做什么？”他在周四接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时问道。
"Why don't we talk about Colleen's potential future, about her life, you know, do a deep dive on her family, talk about what she was trying to do?" he asked during an interview with Fox News Digital Thursday.
他解释说，派克和斯莱默是在一个为来自困难背景的青少年设立的职业学校——职业军团中心（Job Corps Center）相识的。他说，虽然派克表现出职业罪犯的迹象，但斯莱默是一个远离麻烦、专注于改善自身处境的少女。
Pike and Slemmer met in a vocational school for youths from difficult backgrounds, the Job Corps Center, he explained. And while Pike exhibited signs of a career criminal, Slemmer was a teen who kept out of trouble and was focused on improving her circumstances, he said.
关注福克斯真实犯罪团队 “她是一个聪明的年轻女性，”他说。“她对计算机感兴趣。她在那里努力上进。她显然是这起案件中的无辜方，她没有参与职业军团中心发生的任何暴力行为。” 点击此处获取更多福克斯真实犯罪中心内容 他说，斯莱默性格害羞，专注于学业。"她只是一个试图、经历了坎坷早年并试图让生活步入正轨的孩子,"局长说。"
FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON "She was a bright young woman," he said. "She had interest in computers. She was applying herself there. She was clearly an innocent party in this, she was not involved in any of the violence that went on at Job Corps." CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM THE FOX TRUE CRIME HUB Slemmer was shy and focused on her studies, he said. "She was just a child that was trying to, that had been through a troubled early life and was trying to get her life on track," the chief said.
她妈妈显然是她坚定的支持者,但那里也存在一些局限。" 注册获取最新真实犯罪新闻 周四,斯莱默的母亲梅·马丁内斯未回应福克斯新闻数字版的联系尝试。
"Her mom was, was clearly a big supporter of her, but there were some limitations there." SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWS Slemmer's mother, May Martinez, did not respond to Fox News Digital's attempts to reach her Thursday.
派克和另外两人——她的男友塔达里尔·希普和一名叫沙多拉·彼得森的朋友——将斯莱默骗到公园,对她进行长达一小时的殴打、割裂和折磨。"派克是催化剂,"基思说。"她是策划所有事件、诱骗等一切的人。"基思说,在精神科医生后来在审判中称该袭击涉及"撒旦教元素"后,派克在讯问室表现出"毫无悔意"。
Pike and two others — her boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp and a friend named Shadolla Peterson — lured Slemmer to a park to beat, slash and torture her for up to an hour. "Pike was the catalyst," Keith said. "She was the one that was planning out all the events, the luring, all that sort of thing." Keith said Pike showed "no remorse" in the interrogation room after an attack that a psychiatrist later said involved "satanic elements" at trial.
她甚至保留了一块斯莱默破碎的头骨碎片作为战利品,在被捕前向其他同学炫耀。希普阻止斯莱默逃跑并将其按倒,后来在她胸前和脸上刻了五角星。"她代表着纯粹的邪恶,"他说起派克时说道。
She even kept a piece of Slemmer's fractured skull as a trophy, showing it off to other classmates before her arrest. Shipp, who stopped Slemmer from running away and held her down, later carved pentagrams into her chest and face. "She represents pure evil," he said of Pike.