。田纳西州发生的克里斯塔·派克死刑执行失败事件，使她仍在生死线上挣扎，这不过是美国死刑执行过程中频繁出现的严重失误之一。
‘How Does That Happen?’: America’s Execution System Is Long Flawed The failed execution of Christa Pike, which left her clinging to life in Tennessee, was the latest grisly error to take place in an American execution chamber.
此次执行失败事件引发了人们对美国死刑制度的强烈质疑。美国是去年仍执行死刑的17个国家之一，但死刑执行出错的情况却屡见不鲜。
The failed effort to kill Christa Pike has placed a harsh spotlight on the practice of capital punishment in America, one of 17 countries to carry out an execution last year, as well as the regularity with which those executions go awry.
克里斯塔·派克接受了两次戊巴比妥注射，但发现她仍然活着后，医护人员立即对她实施抢救。截至周四晚间，她仍处于昏迷状态，插着气管插管并依靠呼吸机维持生命。
Ms. Pike was given two doses of lethal pentobarbital but then rushed for medical care when it was clear she was still alive. She was unconscious, intubated and on a ventilator in a hospital as of Thursday night.
反死刑组织Reprieve的首席执行官玛雅·福阿表示：“很难理解为何这种情况还能继续发生——不仅在田纳西州，全美都是如此。”她称此次执行失败是“美国历史上最严重的死刑失误之一”。
“It is hard to see how this can be allowed to continue — not only in Tennessee, but nationwide,” said Maya Foa, the chief executive of Reprieve, an anti-death penalty group. She called the failed attempt to kill Ms. Pike “one of the most catastrophic executions” in U.S. history.
2025年，美国共执行了47例死刑，这一数字虽低于1999年创下的98例的历史峰值，却已是2009年以来的最高值。然而，即便科技不断进步，针对死刑犯也尝试了多种新手段，执行失误的情况依然屡见不鲜。
In 2025, 47 people were executed in the United States, more than in any year since 2009, though still below the peak of 98 executed in 1999. Yet even as technology has evolved and new tactics have been tried on death row prisoners, officials continue to botch executions.
不少死刑犯因医护人员难以找到合适的静脉而遭受长时间痛苦；有些甚至死于出血或火灾等意外状况。而1995年因谋杀同学被判刑的克里斯塔·派克却奇迹般生还，成为极少数成功逃过死刑的囚犯之一。
Prisoners have suffered for long periods as doctors fail to find a suitable vein. Some have died in gruesome, unintended situations involving blood or flames. But Ms. Pike, who was convicted of murder in the 1995 killing of her classmate, survived, and is now part of a minuscule cohort of prisoners to have done so.
周四，特朗普总统对田纳西州的这一失误表示难以置信：“这怎么会发生？这本不该这么难才对。”
On Thursday, President Trump expressed disbelief at Tennessee’s error. “How does that happen?” he said. “It shouldn’t be very difficult.”