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田纳西州死囚克里斯塔·派克在周三晚间本州试图通过注射死刑处决她时侥幸存活，其律师称此次经历是“残忍”“酷刑般”且“可预见”的拙劣处决，随后呼吁对她的刑期予以减刑。
“田纳西州再次向我们证明，他们无法执行符合基本人类尊严的处决，”律师兰迪·斯派沃在周四的新闻发布会上告诉记者。“昨晚的情况不仅低效，更是残忍且酷刑般的。这一切也是可预见的。”
斯派沃和另一位代表派克的律师史蒂夫·费雷尔表示，他们数月前就已告知州政府，派克患有血液疾病，且此前其他医护人员难以找到她的静脉，因此她很可能会经历痛苦的死亡。
“克里斯塔所遭受的惩罚，在美国死刑历史上比任何其他人都要严重，”斯派沃说。“州长现在必须减刑克里斯塔的刑期。”
截至周四下午，派克仍处于危重状态，正在接受救命医疗护理，但她的健康状况尚无更多详细信息可供立即获取。
“我们目前无法得知她的预后情况，也没有太多健康更新消息，”斯派沃说道。
克里斯塔·派克 美联社 摄
在田纳西州州长比尔·李取消了该州今年剩余时间所有预定的处决，并下令“开展全面的第三方审查，以确定究竟发生了什么”后，派克的处决目前已暂停。
派克本将成为200年来首位在田纳西州被处决的女性，此前最高法院于周三早些时候裁定她的处决可以执行。她因1995年谋杀前同学科琳·斯莱默而被判处死刑。
根据法庭记录，派克和斯莱默当时都是诺克斯维尔职业培训中心的学生，时年18岁的派克对19岁的斯莱默实施酷刑并将其杀害，据称起因是斯莱默发表了有关派克感情关系的言论。派克现年50岁。
斯派沃称，处决团队周三晚间试图建立静脉输液通道长达一小时，他本人数了一下，至少使用了七根针头，其中一根在尝试失败后从派克手臂拔出时看起来已经弯曲。
“尽管派克女士不仅配合，还主动协助指导放置静脉输液线的人员，告诉他们可以在哪里找到静脉，”斯派沃说。“她一遍又一遍地说：‘请试着在我肩膀上方更高的位置扎针。请试试这里。请试试这里，我觉得这里可以。’当他们——至少他们以为成功建立了输液线时，她还向他们道谢。”
“派克女士态度友善，非常配合，全程都很平静，”他补充道。
两位律师还指出，在之前的法庭文件中，派克并未寻求阻止或推迟处决，但“她一直希望处决能够人道、尽可能迅速且无痛地进行”。
“我认为我们永远无法体会那段时间她经历了什么，但我确实知道那是她最大的恐惧，”费雷尔说。“她不怕死亡，怕的是漫长、痛苦且创伤性的死亡。”
斯派沃称，在整个 ordeal 过程中，派克的精神顾问被两次带出房间，尽管她显然还活着，并且观察室的窗帘被拉了下来。
“协议要求有五分钟的等待期，期间他们会检查生命体征，”斯派沃解释道。“所以在8:25到差不多8:50之间，也就是我们最终被告知救护车正在赶来的这段时间里，我完全不知道那间房间里发生了什么。”
律师们还批评州政府在处决尝试过程中无法快速有效地沟通任何问题。
“我花了大约七分钟，穿过六道上锁的门，才终于找到一部电话，可以向派克的法律团队通报情况，”斯派沃说，并指出这距离派克被注射第一剂药物已经过去了约40分钟。
费雷尔表示，田纳西州最高法院此前曾表示，对之前一次拙劣处决中缺乏电话接入渠道感到担忧，“但却完全没有采取任何措施来解决这个问题”。
费雷尔称，当他们最终得以使用电话时，他们联系了州长办公室，但没有得到回复，随后使用被告知可使用的特殊紧急号码联系州最高法院，结果转接到了语音信箱。他表示，他们只有通过电子提交紧急动议，之后收到了一封附带手机号码的邮件，才得以联系到法院。
两位律师都无法确切说明派克接下来会面临什么。两人都希望她能够康复，并能参与后续的任何诉讼程序。他们指出，州政府没有义务申请新的处决日期，而电椅是该州可用的另一种处决方式。但他们再次希望，鉴于派克所经历的一切，她的刑期能够得到减刑。
“就她所经历的一切而言，她是独一无二的，”斯派沃说。“她遭受了20多年的单独监禁，还经历了一次完整的注射死刑尝试。这是前所未有的。这太残忍了。这种事绝不能再发生了。”
艾米丽·梅·查霍尔对本报道亦有贡献。
Christa Pike’s attorneys say botched execution was “cruel,” “torturous” and “predictable”
October 1, 2026 / 6:58 PM EDT / CBS News
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Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike, who survived the state’s attempt to execute her by lethal injection Wednesday night, are calling for her sentence to be commuted after she endured what they said was a “cruel,” “torturous,” and “predictable” botched execution.
“The state of Tennessee has shown us again that they are not capable of carrying out an execution consistent with basic human dignity,” attorney Randy Spivey told reporters Thursday during a news conference. “Last night was not just inefficient, it was cruel, and it was torturous. It was also predictable.”
Spivey and Steve Ferrell, another attorney representing Pike, said they informed the state months ago that Pike was likely to endure an agonizing death due to a blood condition and prior difficulties finding veins by other medical professionals.
“Christa has endured punishment greater than any other person in the history of the American death penalty,” Spivey said. “The governor must commute Christa’s sentence now.”
Pike was in critical condition and receiving lifesaving medical care as of Thursday afternoon, but further details on her condition weren’t readily available.
“We don’t have a sense of her prognosis or much update on her health at the moment,” Spivey said.
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Pike’s execution is currently on hold after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee called off the remaining executions scheduled in the state for the rest of the year, ordering “a comprehensive, third-party review to determine exactly what occurred.”
Pike was set to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in the last 200 years after the Supreme Court ruled earlier Wednesday that her execution could proceed. She was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of her former classmate, Colleen Slemmer.
According to court records, Pike and Slemmer were students at the Job Corps Center in Knoxville when Pike, then 18, tortured and killed her, allegedly over comments Slemmer, 19, had made about her relationship. Pike is now 50.
Spivey said the execution team tried to establish an IV line for an hour on Wednesday night and that he personally counted the use of at least seven needles, one of which appeared to be bent when it was pulled out of Pike’s arm during an unsuccessful attempt.
“It took an hour, despite the fact that Ms. Pike was not just cooperative, but was trying to help instruct the people placing the IV lines of where she could, of where they could find them,” Spivey said. “Over and over again, said, ‘Please try up on my shoulder higher. Please try here. Please try here. I think it will be OK.’ And she thanked them when they were, when they were able to, at least when they thought they had established a line.”
“Ms. Pike was kind, and she was, she was cooperative, and she was at peace the whole time,” he added.
Both attorneys also noted that in previous court filings, Pike had not sought to stop or delay her execution, but that “she was seeking to have that execution performed humanely and as quickly and as painlessly as possible.”
“I don’t think we could ever know what it was like to go through that time, but I do know that that really was her biggest fear,” Ferrell said. “It was not a fear of dying, it was a fear of a prolonged, painful, traumatic death.”
Spivey said that throughout the ordeal, Pike’s spiritual adviser was taken out of the room twice, even though she was clearly still alive, and the curtain covering the window from the viewing room was brought down.
“What the protocol calls for is a five-minute waiting period, where they check the vital signs,” Spivey explained. “And so, between 8:25 and essentially 8:50, when we were finally told that the ambulance was on its way, I have no idea what happened in that room.”
The attorneys also criticized the state’s inability to quickly and efficiently communicate any issues during the execution attempt.
“It took approximately seven minutes, passage through six locked doors, to finally get me to a phone where I could alert Christa’s legal team to what was happening,” Spivey said, noting that happened some 40 minutes after Pike was given the first dose of chemicals.
Ferrell said the Tennessee Supreme Court had previously said it was troubled by the lack of telephone access in a prior botched execution, “but did absolutely nothing to remedy the problem.”
Ferrell said when they finally got access to a phone, they reached out to the governor’s office, which didn’t respond, and then to the state Supreme Court using a special emergency number they were told to use, which went to voicemail. He said they were only able to get access to the court after filing their emergency motion electronically and then being emailed a cellphone number.
Neither attorney could say with certainty what would happen next for Pike. Both expressed hope that she could recover and be part of any litigation moving forward. They noted the state has no requirement to apply for a new execution date and that the electric chair is another option available to the state. But they reiterated their hope that Pike’s sentence would be commuted after what she has gone through.
“She is in a class by herself as to what she has gone through,” Spivey said. “She endured more than 20 years of solitary confinement, and a full attempt, a full lethal injection attempt. That is unprecedented. That is cruel. This should not happen again.”
Emily Mae Czachor contributed to this report.
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