田纳西州注射死刑未果 女死囚派克两剂药物后存活送医Tennessee Inmate Christa Pike Survives Execution Attempt After Two Lethal Injections

周三晚间的执行过程中，狱方人员先后对派克注射了两剂戊巴比妥。在场见证的媒体记者回忆，派克在注射期间一度看向狱方官员询问这种感觉是否正常，其嘴部数次张开并开始大声打鼾，持续数分钟之久。媒体目击者还观察到派克多次踢动双脚，甚至将身上覆盖的被单踢落。行刑室内的百叶窗在当晚8点06分左右最后一次关闭，其间帘幕曾两次落下。

During the execution attempt on Wednesday night, prison staff administered two doses of pentobarbital to Pike. According to media witnesses, Pike looked toward corrections officials at one point and asked if the procedure was supposed to feel that way. Witnesses recounted that her mouth fell open multiple times and she began snoring loudly for several minutes, while also kicking her feet repeatedly and knocking off the sheet covering her. The execution chamber blinds were lowered for the final time around 8:06 p.m., with curtains descending twice during the ordeal.

派克的律师团队随后向田纳西东区联邦地区法院提交紧急动议要求叫停执行，指出派克在注射两剂药物后仍未失去知觉、保持心跳并在清晰打鼾。截至当晚8点53分媒体记者被要求离场时，室内仍可听到其明显的鼾声。救护车随后抵达监狱将派克送往当地医院接受抢救，辩护律师证实其在医院接受了生命维持治疗措施。

Pike's legal team filed an emergency motion in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee to halt the execution, asserting that she remained conscious with a heartbeat and audible snoring after receiving both syringes. When media observers were escorted out at 8:53 p.m., Pike could still be heard snoring loudly. An ambulance subsequently transported Pike from the prison to an area hospital, where her attorneys stated she was receiving life-saving medical measures.

执行程序出现异常数小时后，田纳西州州长比尔·李发表声明宣布，已经要求对事件启动全面的第三方独立审查，以彻底查清当晚具体发生了什么。州长在声明中表示，依法执行判决属于州政府最重大的职责之一，田纳西州民众期望死刑执行过程不仅符合法律与宪法规定，而且必须切实有效。

Hours after the procedure failed, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee issued a statement announcing that he had ordered a comprehensive, third-party review to determine exactly what occurred during the execution attempt. The governor stated that carrying out a lawfully imposed sentence is among the state's most serious responsibilities, adding that the people of Tennessee expect the process to be carried out in a manner that is not only legal and constitutional, but also effective.

比尔·李同时宣布，田纳西州原定在2026年年内执行的最后一起死刑计划将不再按原定安排进行，年内剩余死刑已被正式叫停。州矫正局随后在一份声明中表示，狱方人员在当晚执行了由州总检察长办公室批准的既定死刑规程中的每一个步骤，但目前各方正在等待第三方审查对整个给药流程和异常状况作出明确调查结论。

Lee also announced that the single remaining execution scheduled in Tennessee through the rest of the year will not proceed as planned. Following the decision, the Tennessee Department of Correction issued a statement asserting that prison staff had followed every step of the lawful execution protocol approved by the state Attorney General's Office, as officials await the findings of the independent inquiry into the administration of the lethal drugs.

田纳西州的注射死刑执行规程要求在第一组药物未能致受刑人死亡时注射第二组注射器，但该规定并未明确说明受刑人在接受第二组药物后依然存活应如何处置。田纳西州矫正局在声明中指出，既定死刑规程不允许在当晚已执行的步骤之外采取任何追加程序。死刑信息中心执行主任罗宾·M·马厄对此评价称，派克在执行过程中遭遇的情况实属罕见且史无前例。

Tennessee's established lethal injection protocol dictates that a secondary set of syringes be administered if an inmate is not deceased after the initial dose. However, the state rules do not spell out what steps officials must take if the individual remains alive after that second set. The Tennessee Department of Correction noted that the existing protocol does not allow for additional procedures beyond what was carried out during the failed execution attempt. Robin M. Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, described the ordeal experienced by Pike as singular and unparalleled.

官方尚未对注射药物未能致死给出官方技术解释，但医学界专家已提出了专业分析。受聘于派克辩护律师团队的埃默里大学医学院教授乔尔·齐沃特博士指出，派克体内可能始终未达到足以引发呼吸暂停和心血管衰竭的戊巴比妥有效血药浓度，因而导致致死注射未能发挥预期的致命作用。

While correctional authorities have yet to issue an official explanation as to why the dosage administered to Pike proved non-fatal, medical experts have pointed to potential pharmacological factors. Dr. Joel Zivot, a professor at the Emory University School of Medicine who was retained by Pike's defense team, indicated that Pike likely never achieved a sufficient blood concentration level of pentobarbital to trigger fatal apnea and cardiovascular failure during the procedure.

执行前夕的司法程序经历了一波三折。田纳西州原定于周三上午10点对派克执行死刑，但联邦上诉法院在执行前一小时下达了暂缓执行令。随后，美国最高法院在数小时后推翻了这项暂缓裁决，允许田纳西州在周三晚间继续推进死刑执行。现年50岁的派克是田纳西州死刑名单上唯一的女性，若执行完成，她将成为该州200多年来首位被处决的女性死囚。

The execution attempt followed an eleventh-hour legal battle that shifted just hours before prison officials began the procedure. Tennessee had initially scheduled Pike to be executed at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, but a federal appeals court issued a stay stopping the lethal injection roughly one hour before it was slated to start. Hours later, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned that stay, clearing state authorities to proceed with the execution on Wednesday evening. Pike, 50, is the sole woman on Tennessee's death row and was set to become the first female inmate executed by the state in more than 200 years.

派克的死刑判决源于三十多年前的一起谋杀案。1995年1月，年仅18岁的派克与时年17岁的男友塔达里尔·希普（Tadaryl Shipp）以及18岁的沙多拉·彼得森（Shadolla Peterson）在诺克斯维尔将19岁的职教中心同学科琳·斯莱默（Colleen Slemmer）诱骗至林区施暴并致其死亡，派克此前将受害者视作情敌。派克于1996年被法院正式判处死刑，并在死囚牢房羁押至今。

Pike's capital sentence stems from a murder committed more than three decades ago. In January 1995, the then-18-year-old Pike, along with her 17-year-old boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp and 18-year-old Shadolla Peterson, lured 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer into a wooded area in Knoxville, where they tortured and killed her after Pike viewed Slemmer as a romantic rival. All four were enrolled at a local Job Corps vocational center at the time. Pike was convicted and received the death sentence in 1996, remaining on death row ever since.