What happened in the failed execution of Christa Pike - and what next?
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What we know after Christa Pike survived two lethal injections US convicted murderer Christa Pike is in a critical condition in hospital after Tennessee authorities failed to execute her by lethal injection, her lawyer says.
克里斯塔·派克两次注射死刑后我们所知道的 美国被定罪的杀人犯克里斯塔·派克的律师表示，田纳西州当局未能以注射死刑的方式处决她，她目前在医院，情况危急。
The case of Pike, whose attempted execution on Wednesday had already been the subject of a high-profile legal battle, has raised a number of questions.
周三派克试图处决的案件已经成为一场备受瞩目的法律诉讼的主题，引发了许多问题。
These include what went wrong, what happens next, and - for opponents of the death penalty - fresh concerns around the suffering of an inmate when an execution does not go to plan.
其中包括出了什么问题，接下来会发生什么，以及对于死刑反对者来说，当处决没有按计划进行时，囚犯所遭受的痛苦引起了新的担忧。
A review into what happened has been ordered and executions in Tennessee have been halted for the rest of the year, Governor Bill Lee said.
州长比尔·李表示，田纳西州已下令对所发生的事情进行审查，并在今年剩余时间内停止执行死刑。
Pike, 50, was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, an attack that carried out alongside her then-boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp, who was 17.
50 岁的派克于 1996 年因谋杀 19 岁的科琳·斯莱默 (Colleen Slemmer) 而被判处死刑，这次袭击是与她当时 17 岁的男友塔达里尔·希普 (Tadaryl Shipp) 一起实施的。
Shipp remains in prison, having been spared the death penalty under state law. Pike was scheduled to be put to death in Tennessee on Wednesday evening local time.
希普仍被关押在监狱中，根据州法律免于死刑。 派克原定于当地时间周三晚上在田纳西州被处决。
The injections were allowed by the Supreme Court at the eleventh hour after the legal battle. Pike was given two injections of the drug pentobarbital but her legal team said these failed to stop her heartbeat and that she could still be heard snoring.
法律斗争结束后的最后一刻，最高法院批准了注射。 派克接受了两次戊巴比妥注射，但她的法律团队表示，这些注射未能阻止她的心跳，而且仍然可以听到她打鼾的声音。
Watch: Witnesses recount Christa Pike's failed execution attempt Tennessee halts executions after death row inmate Christa Pike survives hers US death row inmate survives execution attempt after two lethal injections The Tennessee Department of Correction has defended the method it used, saying "the protocol does not allow for additional procedures beyond what was carried out."
观看：目击者讲述克里斯塔·派克失败的处决尝试 死囚克里斯塔·派克幸存后，田纳西州停止执行死刑 美国死囚两次注射死刑后幸免于难 田纳西州惩教部为其使用的方法进行了辩护，称“该协议不允许除已执行的程序之外的其他程序”。
The state protocol does not clearly specify what should happen if an inmate remains alive after a second dose, according to the AP news agency.
据美联社报道，州协议没有明确规定如果囚犯在第二次注射后仍然活着会发生什么。
Authorities are yet to say whether they will try again to execute Pike.
当局尚未表示是否会再次尝试处决派克。
They have yet to give their explanation of why the dosage given to Pike was non-fatal, although medical experts have given theories.
尽管医学专家给出了理论，但他们尚未解释为什么派克服用的剂量不会致命。
Dr Joel Zivot, a professor at the Emory University School of Medicine, told the BBC Pike probably never achieved a sufficient blood level of pentobarbital to cause her breath to stop or heart failure.
埃默里大学医学院教授乔尔·齐沃特博士告诉 BBC，派克血液中的戊巴比妥浓度可能从未达到足以导致她呼吸停止或心力衰竭的水平。
The Tennessee correction department said Pike had been taken to an off-site medical facility, while one of her lawyers said on Wednesday that she was being given "life-saving measures" in hospital.
田纳西州惩教部门表示，派克已被送往场外医疗机构，而她的一名律师周三表示，她正在医院接受“救生措施”。
On Thursday, lawyer Randy Spivey told reporters: "We don't have a sense of her prognosis or much update on her health at the moment." He added: "But we do know that that she is alive right now."
周四，律师兰迪·斯皮维告诉记者：“我们目前对她的预后或健康状况没有太多了解。” 他补充道：“但我们确实知道她现在还活着。”
In his emailed comments to the BBC, Zivot said: "It's very possible that as a consequence of the delay of the beginning of resuscitation she will have a brain injury."
齐沃特在给英国广播公司的电子邮件评论中说：“由于延迟开始复苏，她很可能会脑部受伤。”
A third-party review has been ordered by state Governor Bill Lee, who said on Thursday that Tennessee will halt executions for the rest of the year.
田纳西州州长比尔·李已下令进行第三方审查，他周四表示田纳西州将在今年剩余时间内停止执行死刑。
This could impact any additional attempt by the state to execute Pike in the near-term, if she does regain consciousness.
如果派克确实恢复了知觉，这可能会影响该州在短期内处决派克的任何其他尝试。
May Martinez, the mother of Colleen Slemmer who had pushed for Pike's execution to take place, told NBC News the events had been "a mess".
科琳·斯莱默 (Colleen Slemmer) 的母亲梅·马丁内斯 (May Martinez) 曾推动处决派克，她告诉 NBC 新闻，事件“一团糟”。
Colleen Slemmer was tortured and brutally killed by Pike and her boyfriend Historically, the US Supreme Court has not halted second attempts at executions, said John Mills, a lawyer who works with inmates sentenced to death.
科琳·史莱默 (Colleen Slemmer) 遭到派克 (Pike) 和男友的酷刑并残忍杀害 与被判处死刑的囚犯打交道的律师约翰·米尔斯 (John Mills) 表示，从历史上看，美国最高法院从未停止过第二次处决。
In 2024, it allowed Alabama to proceed with a second execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith, used an experimental oxygen deprivation method, after their attempt to kill him by lethal injection failed two years before.
2024年，阿拉巴马州允许对肯尼思·尤金·史密斯进行第二次处决，使用实验性缺氧方法，两年前他们试图通过注射死刑失败。
A notable Supreme Court case from 1947 allowed the state of Louisiana to try a second electrocution of Willie Smith, a black teenager whose first execution attempt failed when he was 17 years old.
1947 年最高法院的一个著名案例允许路易斯安那州对黑人少年威利·史密斯（Willie Smith）进行第二次电刑，他在 17 岁时第一次执行死刑失败。
The court found a second execution would not violate the Constitution's prohibitions against double jeopardy or cruel and unusual punishment and Smith was executed aged 18.
法院认为第二次处决不会违反宪法禁止一罪二审或残忍和不寻常惩罚的规定，史密斯在 18 岁时被处决。
"If the question is, is it likely the federal courts would intervene in a second attempt?
“如果问题是，联邦法院是否有可能干预第二次尝试？
I'm afraid the answer is a resounding no," Mills said of Pike's case.
恐怕答案是否定的，”米尔斯在谈到派克的案件时说道。
Pike's lawyers have already filed a motion to stay her execution.
派克的律师已提出暂缓执行死刑的动议。
Mills said that if he was her lawyer, he would be asking both the federal courts and Tennessee court to reconsider their views on a second attempt and would also approach Governor Lee, who has powers to issue stays of executions and exercise clemency.
米尔斯说，如果他是她的律师，他将要求联邦法院和田纳西州法院重新考虑他们对第二次尝试的看法，并将与有权暂缓执行死刑和实行宽大处理的李州长联系。
Opponents of the death penalty have been quick to react.
死刑的反对者迅速做出反应。
Maya Foa, the head of international legal organisation Reprieve, said: "We cannot know exactly what went wrong, because so much happened behind a curtain – lethal injection relies on secrecy at every stage, to hide the violence of the state taking a human life." Pentobarbital is a potent sedative that slows down the body, including the nervous system.
国际法律组织“缓刑”负责人玛雅·福阿表示：“我们无法确切知道出了什么问题，因为很多事情都在幕后发生——注射死刑在每个阶段都依赖保密，以掩盖国家夺取人命的暴力行为。” 戊巴比妥是一种强效镇静剂，可以减慢身体（包括神经系统）的速度。
Doctors sometimes use it as a treatment for certain conditions but in high doses it can also be used as a lethal injection to cause death.
医生有时将其用作某些病症的治疗方法，但在高剂量下，它也可以用作致命注射剂导致死亡。
Its use in lethal injections came under renewed scrutiny last year after a US federal government review during the Biden administration raised concerns about the drug's potential for "unnecessary pain and suffering".
去年，拜登政府期间美国联邦政府的一项审查引发了对该药物可能造成“不必要的疼痛和痛苦”的担忧，该药物在注射死刑中的使用受到了重新审查。
The Biden government banned its use in federal executions but that did not bind individual states such as Tennessee, which can choose their own methods.
拜登政府禁止在联邦处决中使用它，但这对田纳西州等个别州没有约束力，这些州可以选择自己的方法。
Why the death penalty is on the rise in US In recent years, states have found some drugs needed for lethal injections harder to come by, because pharmaceutical companies have opposed the use of their products for such purposes.
美国死刑为何不断上升 近年来，各州发现注射死刑所需的一些药物更难获得，因为制药公司反对将其产品用于此类目的。
Some manufacturers have explicitly said they will no longer produce pentobarbital or will restrict their use in executions, according to Alexis Hoag-Fordjor, Co-Director of the Center for Criminal Justice at Brooklyn Law School. In 2024, for instance, the manufacturer Absolute Standards said it would no longer make the drug., external The Tennessee correction department has not specifically addressed an allegation from Pike's legal team that the pentobarbital it used was "degraded".
布鲁克林法学院刑事司法中心联席主任亚历克西斯·霍格-福德乔 (Alexis Hoag-Fordjor) 表示，一些制造商已明确表示，他们将不再生产戊巴比妥或限制其在处决中的使用。 例如，到 2024 年，制造商 Absolute Standards 表示将不再生产该药物。 田纳西州惩教部门尚未具体回应派克法律团队的指控，即其使用的戊巴比妥已“降解”。
Drugs may degrade for a number of reasons, including if it has aged beyond its use-by date and its potency has decreased.
药物可能会因多种原因而降解，包括药物老化超过保质期且药效下降。
But the department issued a broader defence of its method, writing in a statement: "The lethal injection chemical in the protocol has consistently been effective."
但该部门对其方法进行了更广泛的辩护，并在一份声明中写道：“方案中的注射死刑化学品一直有效。”
"It's unclear, the quality and the effectiveness of the drug" used in Pike's execution, Hoag-Fordjor told the BBC, given how difficult it has been for states like Tennessee to obtain pentobarbital.
霍格-福德乔告诉英国广播公司，考虑到像田纳西州这样的州获得戊巴比妥有多困难，“目前还不清楚处决派克时使用的药物的质量和有效性”。
"It shouldn't be a surprise something went wrong," he said.
“出现问题并不奇怪，”他说。
The predicament Tennessee authorities found themselves in - having to call emergency medical services to save Pike after trying to kill her - suggested there was "no plan in place" for a scenario like Pike's, Hoag-Fordjor added.
霍格-福德乔补充说，田纳西州当局发现自己陷入了困境——在试图杀死派克后不得不呼叫紧急医疗服务来拯救她——这表明对于像派克这样的情况“没有适当的计划”。
The attempted execution of Pike was not the first in Tennessee in 2026 that did not go to plan.
2026 年田纳西州对派克的处决并非首次未按计划进行。
The execution of Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering three people in 1994, was postponed in May after staff were unable to find a vein to administer a lethal injection. He was given a one-year reprieve by Governor Bill Lee.
托尼·卡拉瑟斯 (Tony Carruthers) 因 1994 年绑架和谋杀三人而被定罪，由于工作人员无法找到注射死刑的静脉，他的处决于 5 月被推迟。 州长比尔·李给予他一年缓刑。
More widely across the US, the issue of botched executions continues to cause alarm.
在美国更广泛的范围内，处决不当的问题继续引起警惕。
In 2022, more than a third of executions in the US were botched or highly problematic, according to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) - an organisation that provides statistics and research on the death penalty but does not take a stance on it morally.
根据死刑信息中心 (DPI) 的数据，2022 年，美国超过三分之一的处决是拙劣的或存在严重问题的。该组织提供死刑统计数据和研究，但并不在道德上表明立场。
The DPI says lethal injection has the highest rate of botched executions.
新闻部表示，注射死刑是处决失败率最高的方式。
In 204, the execution of Clayton Lockett was postponed after 20 minutes because a lethal injection of three drugs failed to work properly when one of his veins ruptured and he went on to writhe and shake uncontrollably.
204年，克莱顿·洛基特的处决被推迟了20分钟，因为注射三种药物未能正常发挥作用，导致他的一根静脉破裂，导致他无法控制地翻滚和颤抖。
In the US, 27 of the 50 states have the death penalty under state law.
在美国，50 个州中有 27 个州根据州法律规定了死刑。
The federal government can also carry out executions after President Donald Trump, a supporter of capital punishment, ended a moratorium last year. However, it has not carried out any executions since then.
在死刑支持者唐纳德·特朗普总统去年结束暂停执行死刑后，联邦政府也可以执行死刑。 然而，自那以后它没有执行任何处决。
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