贾马尔·霍华德的律师以存在再次执行失败的风险为由请求暂停执行，但法院拒绝了该请求。
德克萨斯州定于周三执行自上周田纳西州克里斯塔·派克死刑注射失败以来美国首例死刑。
Jamaal Howard’s lawyers urged halt, citing risk of another failed execution, but court denied request Texas on Wednesday is scheduled to carry out the first execution in the US after the the botched lethal injection of Christa Pike in Tennessee last week.
贾马尔·霍华德是德克萨斯州一名因一级谋杀罪被判处死刑的囚犯，其律师向德克萨斯州刑事上诉法院寻求暂停执行，辩称该案与派克案存在类似风险。
Lawyers for Jamaal Howard, a Texas man on death row for capital murder, sought to halt the execution, arguing to the Texas court of criminal appeals there are similar risks as in the case of Pike.
法院拒绝了暂停执行的请求，随后也拒绝了就相关药物提出的第二次阻止执行的尝试。法院未作进一步说明即驳回了这两项请求。美国最高法院也在周三晚间未作评论地拒绝了最后的上诉。
The court denied the request for a stay and later denied a second attempt to stop the execution over the drug. The court denied both without elaboration. The US supreme court also denied a late appeal Wednesday evening without comment.
