Execution of US murderer Christa Pike halted shortly before it was due to happen
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If the execution proceeds, Christa Pike would be the first woman to be executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years The execution of Tennessee inmate Christa Pike has been halted just over an hour before it was due to happen.
如果处决继续进行，克里斯塔·派克将成为田纳西州 200 多年来第一位被处决的女性 田纳西州囚犯克里斯塔·派克的处决在原定执行日期前一个多小时被叫停。
Pike, 50, has been awaiting execution since she was convicted and sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of Colleen Slemmer.
派克现年 50 岁，自 1996 年因谋杀科琳·斯莱默 (Colleen Slemmer) 被定罪并被判处死刑以来，一直在等待处决。
In their ruling on Wednesday, judges from the Sixth Circuit Appeals court said they needed more time to consider the arguments in Pike's case.
第六巡回上诉法院的法官在周三的裁决中表示，他们需要更多时间来考虑派克案件中的论点。
It is unclear how long the pause will last. This latest ruling comes after the Supreme Court denied a reprieve and the Tennessee governor declined to grant Pike's request for clemency earlier this week.
目前尚不清楚暂停会持续多久。 这项最新裁决是在最高法院拒绝缓刑以及田纳西州州长本周早些时候拒绝批准派克的宽大请求之后做出的。
Her lawyers said that for years, the state of Tennessee argued in court that Pike had lied about being sexually abused as a child.
她的律师表示，多年来，田纳西州在法庭上辩称派克撒谎称自己在儿童时期遭受过性虐待。
But at a recent hearing about her execution method, the State said it does not dispute she suffered sexual abuse and rape.
但在最近一次关于她的处决方法的听证会上，州政府表示，对她遭受的性虐待和强奸并不存在争议。
Pike's legal team asked the appeals court to send her motion back to the district court, arguing that if the federal courts based their ruling on the state's earlier claim that she was lying, then the federal review was affected.
派克的法律团队要求上诉法院将她的动议发回地区法院，认为如果联邦法院根据该州先前声称她撒谎的说法做出裁决，那么联邦审查就会受到影响。
The appeal that led to Wednesday's stay is different from that made to the Supreme Court, which refused to hear Pike's appeal.
导致周三中止的上诉与向最高法院提出的上诉不同，最高法院拒绝审理派克的上诉。
It came from her challenge to Tennessee's lethal injection method, which Pike's lawyers said could cause suffering beyond what is needed to carry out the death sentence - something the Constitution does not allow.
这是她对田纳西州注射死刑方法的挑战，派克的律师表示，注射死刑可能会造成超出执行死刑所需的痛苦，这是宪法所不允许的。
The lawyers argued that Tennessee's procedures had denied Pike a fair chance to prove this. "We will continue to advocate for the lawfully imposed sentence as the courts work through this technical issue," Tennessee's Attorney General said in a statement.
律师们辩称，田纳西州的程序剥夺了派克证明这一点的公平机会。 田纳西州总检察长在一份声明中表示：“随着法院解决这一技术问题，我们将继续主张依法判处刑罚。”
"It is common in capital cases for the defence to raise last minute objections following decades of litigation in numerous courts.
“在死刑案件中，经过数十年在众多法院的诉讼后，辩方在最后一刻提出反对意见是很常见的。
We are asking the Supreme Court of the United States to lift the stay." Colleen Slemmer was 19 when she was murdered in 1995 She was 18 when she and her then-boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, beat, tortured and murdered Colleen Slemmer, a 19-year-old they met at a job training camp for troubled teens.
我们请求美国最高法院取消暂缓执行。” 科琳·斯莱默 (Colleen Slemmer) 1995 年被谋杀时年仅 19 岁 当她 18 岁时，她和当时的男友塔达里尔·希普 (Tadaryl Shipp) 殴打、折磨并谋杀了科琳·斯莱默 (Colleen Slemmer)，他们是在问题青少年就业训练营认识的 19 岁女孩。
The murder created a media frenzy in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1995, when the teen was found with a pentagram - a symbol that is associated with satanic groups - carved into her chest.
1995 年，这起谋杀案在田纳西州诺克斯维尔引起了媒体的热议，当时这名少女的胸口上刻着一个五角星——一个与撒旦团体有关的符号。
Pike has denied carving the pentagram herself.
派克否认自己雕刻了五角星。
She had accused Slemmer of insulting her and trying to steal her boyfriend. Two other residents at the camp later testified that Pike had bragged about the murder before and after and showed them a piece of Slemmer's skull.
她指责斯莱默侮辱她并试图抢走她的男朋友。 营地里的另外两名居民后来作证说，派克在谋杀前后都吹嘘过这起谋杀案，并向他们展示了斯莱默的一块头骨。
A year later, Pike was sentenced to death, while Shipp - who was 17 at the time - was given a life sentence with the possibility of parole. Pike has a documented history of childhood sexual abuse, abandonment and neglect.
一年后，派克被判处死刑，而当时 17 岁的希普则被判处无期徒刑，并有可能假释。 派克有童年性虐待、遗弃和忽视的历史记录。
Her lawyers believe that if she was found guilty of the same crime today as a teenager she would not receive a death sentence.
她的律师相信，如果她今天在青少年时期被判犯有同样的罪行，她不会被判处死刑。
Last year, Tennessee's Supreme Court ruled Pike had not shown circumstances that would justify commuting her sentence. At the time of her incarceration, Pike was the youngest person on death row, according to the Tennessee Department of Corrections.
去年，田纳西州最高法院裁定派克没有表现出可以证明减刑的理由。 据田纳西州惩教署称，派克被监禁时是死囚区中最年轻的人。
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