据克里斯塔·派克的律师周二透露，这位田纳西州的女囚犯在险些被处决后幸存下来，目前已在医院苏醒并能正常说话，正在接受治疗。
Christa Pike, a Tennessee inmate who survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her, is awake and speaking as she receives treatment at a hospital, her lawyers said on Tuesday.
“尽管情况极为不利，克里斯塔·派克依然神志清醒、能够说话，并持续接受至关重要的医疗救治。”
“Against all odds, Christa Pike is conscious, speaking and continues to receive critical medical care.
“尽管双臂遭受了严重损伤，她仍被手铐铐住且脚镣锁在病床上。她的康复过程在医学上堪称罕见。目前预后情况尚不明朗，但至少我们预计她需要漫长的康复期，”派克的律师在声明中说道。
“Despite the severe damage she endured to her arms, she is still handcuffed and shackled to the bed. Her recovery is medically unprecedented. Her prognosis remains unclear but, at a minimum, we expect a long recovery,” lawyers for Pike said in a statement.
派克的律师们还表示，他们衷心感谢急救人员以及医院的医疗团队，“他们把克里斯塔当作普通人对待，为她提供了无微不至的照料”。
Her lawyers said they are grateful for the first responders and the medical team at the hospital “who treated Christa like a human and have provided exceptional care to her”.
这份声明是自上周三救护车将派克从纳什维尔的监狱接走后，首次透露她的病情有所好转的消息。
The statement was the first indication that Pike has improved since an ambulance carried her away from a Nashville prison last Wednesday.
田纳西州惩教局的一位女发言人称，除派克周二仍在住院外，她无法提供其他任何信息。
A spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Correction said she could provide no information other than that Pike remained hospitalised on Tuesday.
1995年，派克因殴打并刺死同学科琳·斯莱默而获刑。此次行刑时，当局两次向她注射戊巴比妥，试图将其处死，但她却奇迹般地活了下来。
Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital as they attempted to put her to death for the 1995 beating and stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer.
这种致命注射药物并未致其死亡，不过派克的律师称她的双臂出现了烧伤与起泡现象。
The lethal injection drug did not kill her, but her lawyers said her arms were left burnt and blistered.
曾作为专家为派克的法律团队提供咨询的亚特兰大麻醉学与外科教授乔尔·齐沃特表示，这一情况“对她的顺利康复是个好兆头”。
Joel Zivot, a professor of anaesthesiology and surgery in Atlanta who consulted as an expert for Pike’s legal team, said the development “bodes well for a good recovery”.
不过他同时指出，可能要过数周甚至数月才能确定她的确切康复状况，以及她的精神状态能否恢复到足以让州政府再次尝试对其执行死刑的程度。“她目前仍在重症监护室，”他说道。
But, he added, it could be weeks or months before anyone knows exactly what her recovery might look like, and whether her competency could be restored to a level that might enable the state to try again to execute her. “She’s still in the ICU,” he said.
她已经恢复到了一定程度，能够脱离呼吸机并说话，但我绝不会宣布她已摆脱进一步的严重风险。即使每个人都尽职尽责，这里仍然有许多不好的事情可能发生。派克的律师周三将赴法院，寻求了解这次失败的静脉注射执行过程中发生了什么。
“She has recovered to a certain degree that she’s able to be off a ventilator and able to speak, but in no way would I announce her free of further serious risk. There’s still a lot of bad things that can happen here, even when everyone is doing their job well.”Pike’s lawyers are set to go to court on Wednesday as they seek to learn more about what happened in the failed lethal injection.
律师们正寻求法院下令要求田纳西州矫正部保存证据，包括药品批号、记录和其他来自9月30日未遂处决的信息。衡平法院法官伊莎·迈尔斯安排了周三上午的案件状态会议。
The lawyers are seeking a court order requiring the Tennessee Department of Correction to preserve evidence, including drug lot numbers, records and other information from the September 30 attempted execution. Chancery Court Judge I’Ashea Myles scheduled a Wednesday morning status conference in the case.
派克的律师在周二发表的声明中表示，他们仍在要求田纳西州州长比尔·李将派克的刑期减为无假释权的终身监禁。
Pike’s lawyers said in their Tuesday statement that they continue to ask Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to commute Pike’s sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
“克里斯塔是一位幸存者，将一步一步地恢复健康，”她的律师们说。本文来自美联社
“Christa is a survivor and will take recovery one day at a time,” her lawyers said. By Associated Press