德克萨斯州于10月7日傍晚通过注射死刑的方式执行了一名死囚，这是自田纳西州克里斯塔·派克（Christa Pike）的死刑执行失败后，美国首次再次实施死刑。据CBS新闻报道，在派克的死刑执行失败后，46岁的贾马尔·霍华德（Jamaal Howard）的律师们曾请求法官暂停执行。然而，法院驳回了他们的请求。霍华德在亨茨维尔州立监狱被注射了致命剂量的戊巴比妥（pentobarbital），并于当地时间20:03被宣布死亡。
Texas executed a death row inmate by lethal injection on Wednesday evening, October 7, which became the first execution in the United States after Christa Pike’s failed execution in Tennessee. Lawyers for 46-year-old Jamaal Howard had asked a judge to pause the execution after Pike’s botched execution attempt, CBS News reported. However, courts denied their requests. Howard was given a fatal dose of pentobarbital at the state prison in Huntsville, and was pronounced dead at 20:03 local time. Who was Jamaal Howard?
贾马尔·霍华德因2000年参与一起抢劫案并杀害了一家便利店店员而被判死刑。当时他只有20岁，受害者维基·斯沃特豪特（Vickie Swartout）42岁，正在那家便利店工作。霍华德从店里偷走了一盒香烟和114美元。
Howard was convicted and sentenced to death for the 2000 murder of a convenience store clerk during a robbery committed by him. He was 20 years old when he shot Vickie Swartout, 42, who was working at a convenience store in Texas. Howard stole a carton of cigarettes and $114 from the.
什么是“血小板增多症”（thrombocytosis）？这是一种影响血液凝固功能的疾病，可能导致注射死刑的过程中出现并发症。据报道，在被问及是否有什么最后遗言时，霍华德向在旁观室的斯沃特豪特家属道歉，他说：“我希望你们能接受我的道歉，并原谅我。我对发生的一切感到抱歉，希望有一天你们能原谅我。”
What is thrombocytosis? Christa Pike's blood-clotting condition that may have made lethal injection challengingOn being asked if he had a final statement before being put to death, Howard reportedly apologized to Swartout's family, who watched from a witness room."I wish that you accept my apology, and I wish for your forgiveness," Howard said. "I'm sorry for what happened.
与此同时，在田纳西州，克里斯塔·派克在死刑执行失败近一周后已经苏醒，并开始在病床上说话，她的律师们向BBC透露了这一情况。专家和她的律师认为这一情况在医学上是“前所未有的”。
I wish you can learn to forgive me one of these days." Meanwhile, in Tennessee, Pike has woken up and begun speaking from her hospital bed almost a week after her failed execution, her lawyers said, per the BBC. Experts and her lawyers have said that the new development is "medically unprecedented."
卡丽莎·汉森（Carissa Hansen）：克里斯塔·派克的生母是谁？她现在在哪里？在死刑执行失败后，派克被接上了呼吸机，医院工作人员正在努力挽救她的生命，并清除她体内残留的戊巴比妥。
Carissa Hansen: Who is Christa Pike's biological mother and where is she now? Pike was put on a ventilator after the failed execution attempt, with hospital staff working to save her life and clear the pentobarbital she was administered from her system.
9月30日星期三，田纳西州在试图执行对她执行死刑的过程中，给她注射了两剂药物，但未能成功将其处死。据NBC新闻报道，皮克（Pike）的律师们在10月6日星期二发表的声明中表示，尽管她在接受两剂戊巴比妥注射后手臂受了严重伤害，她仍然被铐在手上、脚上被锁住。他们此前在一份法庭文件中称，他们认为问题出在静脉输液管上——导致戊巴比妥流入了她的身体，而非进入她的血液系统。
She received two doses of the drug in a failed attempt by the state of Tennessee to execute her on Wednesday, September 30. Pike’s attorneys said in a statement on Tuesday, October 6, that she remains handcuffed and shackled despite having sustained significant injuries to her arms after two injections of pentobarbital failed to kill her, NBC News reported. They previously stated in a court filing that they believed problems with intravenous lines caused the pentobarbital to flow into her body instead of her bloodstream.