2026-09-30T05:08:32.771Z / 路透社
- 摘要
- 克里斯塔·派克，现年50岁，18岁时被判谋杀罪名成立
- 减刑申请遭拒，申请书中提及童年遭受性虐待与忽视
- 派克被诊断为双相情感障碍、创伤后应激障碍
9月30日（路透社）——因三十年前谋杀一名同学被判死刑的囚犯克里斯塔·派克，将于本周三在田纳西州通过注射死刑被处决，该州将因此成为两百多年来首次处决女性囚犯的美国州份。
派克的减刑请愿书强调了童年创伤与性虐待经历，但遭到州长比尔·李驳回。她也将成为美国现代死刑制度下，田纳西州首位因青少年时期所犯罪行被处决的人。
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美国最高法院周二驳回了最后一刻提出的暂缓处决申请，处决将于州首府纳什维尔的里弗本德最高安全级监狱执行。
现年50岁的派克在1995年1月时年仅18岁，当时她与一名17岁男友及第三名同伴将诺克斯维尔职业培训中心的19岁同学科琳·斯莱默诱骗至一片林区，对其实施酷刑并杀害。
这起谋杀案的残忍性质引发当时媒体的广泛报道，凶手在受害者胸口刻下五芒星形状，并取下一块头骨作为屠杀纪念品。
庭审证词显示，派克将斯莱默视为对其男友塔达里尔·希普感情的竞争对手。
派克与希普对谋杀罪行供认不讳，两人次年均被判一级谋杀罪成立。派克被判处死刑，而希普则被判处终身监禁且可假释。
他们的同案被告沙多拉·彼得森案发时18岁，曾为另外两人望风，作为控方证人出庭并获得缓刑。
据田纳西州惩教部消息，派克目前是该州死囚区唯一的女性囚犯，她还在2001年8月因袭击另一名囚犯被判一级谋杀未遂罪。
在一份长达226页、请求州长将其死刑减为终身不得假释的请愿书中，她的律师记录了她童年时期遭受暴力、忽视和性虐待的经历，包括11岁和17岁时遭到两次强奸。他们还援引了她在狱中被诊断为双相情感障碍和创伤后应激障碍的记录。
犯下谋杀罪的青少年“已不复存在”
她的律师还指出，有证据表明派克的母亲在怀孕期间酗酒，导致其大脑发育受损，使得当事人年轻时难以控制自己的冲动。
“那个患有严重精神疾病、近乎被创伤摧毁的18岁女孩已经不复存在，”派克的律师在回应李驳回减刑申请时写道，“克里斯塔是一名50岁、充满悔意的女性，她清楚自己的行为，正在接受适当的精神疾病治疗，并为其他在押女性提供支持和引导。”
斯莱默的母亲梅·马丁内斯已公开表态支持处决。
据死刑信息中心数据，美国处决女性囚犯的情况极为罕见，自1976年最高法院恢复死刑以来，在1683名被处决者中女性仅占18人。在本周三之前，田纳西州已处决17人。
派克的案件引发了国际关注，一组联合国人权专家近期发表声明，呼吁将其死刑减为终身监禁。
性暴力与创伤专家也为派克发声，称注射死刑的流程可能会让派克重温童年遭受性虐待和强奸的严重创伤性闪回，进一步加剧她死亡过程中的残酷与痛苦。
田纳西州监狱官员今年5月曾因无法为一名被定罪的杀人犯找到合适的静脉注射部位，中止了处决计划。
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Tennessee set to execute a woman for the first time in two centuries
2026-09-30T05:08:32.771Z / Reuters
Christa Gail Pike, 36, the only woman on Tennessee’s Death Row, is pictured in this 2004 Tennessee Department of Correction booking photograph obtained by Reuters March 22, 2012. REUTERS/Tennessee Department of Correction/ Handout/ File Photo
- Summary
- Christa Pike, 50, convicted of committing murder at age 18
- Failed clemency bid cited childhood sexual abuse, neglect
- Pike diagnosed with bipolar, post-traumatic stress disorder
Sept 30 (Reuters) – Death row inmate Christa Pike, convicted of murdering a schoolmate three decades ago, is due to be executed by lethal injection in Tennessee on Wednesday, becoming the first woman that state has put to death in more than two hundred years.
Pike, whose clemency petition highlighting childhood trauma and sexual abuse was denied by Governor Bill Lee, would also be the only person in the modern era of US capital punishment to be executed in Tennessee for a crime committed as a teenager.
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The US Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an 11th-hour bid for a stay of execution, which is set to take place at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, the state capital.
Pike, now 50, was 18 in January 1995 when she, a 17-year-old boyfriend and a third companion lured 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a classmate at their Knoxville Job Corps vocational center, into a wooded area where they tortured and killed her.
The grisly nature of the slaying, which involved the perpetrators carving the shape of a pentagram in the victim’s chest and taking a chunk of her skull as a souvenir of the carnage, drew intense media coverage at the time.
Trial testimony indicated that Pike viewed Slemmer as a rival for the affections of her boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp.
Pike and Shipp confessed to the killing, and both were convicted the following year of first-degree murder. Pike was sentenced to death, while Shipp received a life sentence with the possibility of parole.
Their co-defendant, Shadolla Peterson, who was 18 at the time of the murder and had acted as a lookout for the other two, appeared as a witness for the prosecution and received probation.
Currently the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, Pike was also convicted in August 2001 of attempted first-degree murder in an assault on another inmate, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction.
In a 226-page petition asking the governor to commute her death penalty to a life sentence without the possibility of parole, her lawyers documented her history as the childhood victim of violence, neglect and sexual abuse, including two rapes at ages 11 and 17. And they cited the diagnoses she received in prison for bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
TEEN WHO COMMITTED MURDER ‘NO LONGER EXISTS’
Her lawyers also pointed to evidence that Pike’s mother drank heavily during pregnancy, contributing to faulty brain development that made it difficult for their client to control her impulses as a young person.
“The 18-year-old girl suffering from severe mental illness and near-debilitating trauma no longer exists,” her lawyers wrote in response to Lee’s denial of clemency. “Christa is a 50-year-old remorseful woman who understands her actions, receives proper treatment for her mental illness, and provides for and guides fellow incarcerated women.”
Slemmer’s mother, May Martinez, has spoken out in support of the execution.
Executions of female prison inmates are exceedingly rare in the US, with women accounting for just 18 of the 1,683 people put to death since the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Before Wednesday, Tennessee had executed 17 people.
Pike’s case has drawn international attention, with a group of United Nations human rights experts issuing a recent statement calling for commutation of her death sentence.
Sexual violence and trauma experts have also spoken out on her behalf, arguing that the procedures surrounding lethal injection would likely cause Pike to experience severe, traumatic flashbacks of child sexual abuse and rape, adding to the cruelty and anguish of her death.
Tennessee prison officials in May aborted attempts to execute a man convicted of murders after failing to find a suitable vein for a lethal injection.
Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; editing by Lincoln Feast
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