9月30日星期三，在田纳西州纳什维尔的里弗本德最高安全监狱，七支注射器、两剂足量巴比妥类药物和两个多小时的痛苦，仍未能杀死克里斯塔·派克。这名50岁的女子因酷刑和谋杀于1996年被判处死刑；此次执行失误，是美国法律体系自1976年恢复死刑以来，在执行死刑方面最严重的一次失败。派克被送往重症监护室，周四晚上仍在那里。
Seven syringes, two full doses of barbiturates, and more than two hours of suffering were not enough to kill Christa Pike on Wednesday, September 30, at the Riverbend maximum-security prison in Nashville, Tennessee. The botched execution of the 50-year-old woman, who was sentenced to death in 1996 for torture and murder, is the American legal system's most serious failure in administering the death penalty since its reinstatement in 1976. Pike was transferred to intensive care, where she remained on Thursday evening.
“昨晚的行动绝不只是效率低下，而是残酷且令人备受折磨；而且这一切是可以预料的。”她的律师之一兰迪·斯派维在现场目睹了这一幕，并在10月1日星期四举行的新闻发布会上明显受到冲击。“克里斯塔承受的惩罚，超过美国死刑历史上的任何其他人。该州州长、共和党人比尔·李，现在必须为克里斯塔减刑。”本文还有84.67%的内容未读，其余内容仅对付费用户开放。
"Last night was not just inefficient, it was cruel, and it was torturous. It was also predictable," said Randy Spivey, one of her attorneys, who witnessed the scene and was visibly shaken, during a press conference on Thursday, October 1. "Christa has endured punishment greater than any other person in the history of the American death penalty. The governor [of the state, Republican Bill Lee] must commute Christa's sentence now." You have 84.67% of this article left to read. The rest is forrs only.