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US death row inmate Christa Pike has been discharged from hospital following her botched execution at the end of last month, her lawyers have said.
美国死囚克里斯塔·派克 (Christa Pike) 的律师表示,她在上个月底处决失败后已出院。
Pike, 50, has been sent back to the prison where she has spent the last 30 years and is continuing to receive medical care, according to a statement from her lawyers on Saturday.
根据周六派克律师的一份声明,50 岁的派克已被送回她度过了 30 年的监狱,并继续接受医疗护理。
She survived two lethal injections of the drug pentobarbital on 30 September, which left her in a critical condition.
9 月 30 日,她在两次注射戊巴比妥药物致死后幸免于难,当时她的情况危急。
Pike regained consciousness earlier this week and began speaking - stunning experts, medical staff and her lawyers.
本周早些时候,派克恢复了知觉,并开始发表讲话——令专家、医务人员和她的律师惊叹不已。
Her case is now in uncharted territory as she is thought to be the only person to have survived an execution attempt by lethal injection.
她的案件现在处于未知领域,因为她被认为是唯一在注射死刑中幸存的人。
I've seen nearly 500 executions - but never one like Christa Pike's I interviewed Christa Pike 20 years ago - I can't stop thinking about her What happened in Christa Pike's failed US execution, and how did she survive?
我见过近 500 起处决事件,但从来没有像克里斯塔·派克那样被处决 20 年前我采访了 Christa Pike - 我无法停止想起她 克里斯塔·派克在美国被处决失败时发生了什么?她是如何幸存下来的?
Pike's lawyers said in their statement that she was "grateful to the first responders and her medical team for their care in these extraordinary circumstances".
派克的律师在声明中表示,她“感谢急救人员和她的医疗团队在这种特殊情况下提供的护理”。
It is unclear what medical care Pike is receiving now that she is back in prison but her lawyers previously said she faced a "long road to recovery".
目前尚不清楚派克回到监狱后正在接受哪些医疗护理,但她的律师此前表示,她面临着“漫长的康复之路”。
The Tennessee Department of Correction is yet to say why the execution did not go as planned, though it has defended the method it used.
田纳西州惩教署尚未说明为何处决没有按计划进行,但它为所使用的方法进行了辩护。
How widely used is the death penalty in the US?
死刑在美国的适用范围有多大?
At a court hearing on Wednesday, Tennessee Assistant Attorney General Will Ayers told the judge he did not know whether the state intends to try to execute her again.
在周三的法庭听证会上,田纳西州助理司法部长威尔·艾尔斯告诉法官,他不知道该州是否打算再次尝试处决她。
The judge ordered the state to preserve all evidence related to the failed injections.
法官命令该州保留与注射失败有关的所有证据。
That evidence could lay the groundwork for a future lawsuit against the state.
这些证据可能为未来针对该州的诉讼奠定基础。
Pike was 18 when she and her then-boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, beat, tortured and killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, whom they had met at a job training camp for low-income young people. Shipp was spared the death penalty because he was not legally an adult when the crime was committed.
派克 18 岁时,和她当时的男友塔达里尔·希普 (Tadaryl Shipp) 殴打、折磨并杀害了 19 岁的科琳·斯莱默 (Colleen Slemmer),他们是在低收入年轻人职业培训营认识的。 希普没有被判处死刑,因为犯罪时他在法律上还不是成年人。
He remains in prison.
他仍被关在监狱里。
Pike was the first woman scheduled to be executed in the state of Tennessee in over 200 years. Her lawyers have spent decades appealing her case.
派克是田纳西州 200 多年来第一位被处决的女性。 她的律师花了几十年的时间对她的案件提出上诉。
In the days leading up to her scheduled execution, both the US Supreme Court and Tennessee Governor Bill Lee declined to block the execution.
在她预定执行死刑的前几天,美国最高法院和田纳西州州长比尔·李都拒绝阻止执行。
Since it failed, Pike's lawyers have renewed their calls for her sentence to be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Colleen Slemmer was tortured and brutally killed by Pike and Shipp Pike lost consciousness and was taken to a local hospital following her botched execution.
由于失败,派克的律师再次呼吁将她的刑期减为终身监禁,且不得假释。 科琳·斯莱默被派克和希普折磨并残忍杀害 派克在处决失败后失去了知觉,被送往当地一家医院。
Her legal team believed for days that she was brain dead and expected her to be taken off life support at any moment.
几天来,她的法律团队一直认为她已经脑死亡,并希望她随时停止生命支持。
Pike eventually woke up and began talking again on Tuesday - her lawyer Randy Spivey said her first words were "Where am I?" and "Who are you?"
派克最终醒来并于周二再次开始说话——她的律师兰迪·斯皮维说她的第一句话是“我在哪里?”和“你是谁?”
At a press conference on Wednesday, her lawyers said she was shackled to the bed and suffering from pneumonia and significant swelling on her arms, while also being unable to swallow. "We don't know the toll all of this will take" Spivey said of her mental health, adding that Pike felt "angry and confused".
在周三的新闻发布会上,她的律师表示,她被铐在床上,患有肺炎,手臂严重肿胀,同时也无法吞咽。 斯皮维谈到她的心理健康状况时说,“我们不知道这一切会造成什么损失”,并补充说派克感到“愤怒和困惑”。
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律师告诉 BBC,克里斯塔·派克 (Christa Pike) 在美国执行死刑失败后现在可以行走 律师称,克里斯塔·派克在处决失败后,健康状况出现了“深刻”的好转
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