2026年10月7日 / 美国东部时间上午11:11 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
一名枪杀便利店店员的得克萨斯州男子的律师请求法官暂缓原定于周三进行的致命注射死刑，援引上周田纳西州克里斯塔·派克处决失败的案例。
这将是派克案后美国首个被安排的处决行动。
由于此次得克萨斯州为贾马尔·霍华德使用的致命药物与派克未遂处决中使用的药物一致——戊巴比妥，霍华德的律师辩称该药物存在相同风险，并表示他们认为州政府的药物供应已经变质。
派克的律师正在寻求更多关于这名50岁女子在两剂戊巴比妥注射后幸存事件的细节。她已被送往医院，截至周二，她已清醒并能说话。
在周二的一份声明中，她的律师表示她“意识清醒、能够交谈，目前仍在接受重症医疗护理”，但同时指出“她的预后情况仍不明朗”，且“至少”“预计需要漫长的康复过程”。
他们还提到，“尽管她的手臂遭受了严重损伤，但她仍被手铐和脚镣束缚在病床上”。
派克的一名律师史蒂夫·费雷尔周一在《哥伦比亚广播公司早间节目》中表示，医生正在努力清除她体内的戊巴比妥，她目前依靠呼吸机维持生命。
派克的律师指控此次处决存在静脉穿刺失误——针头完全刺穿静脉导致血液和体液泄漏，同时田纳西州使用的戊巴比妥已变质，且缺乏应急医疗护理。
“存在类似风险，”霍华德的律师写道，“得克萨斯州的处决药物同样可能已经变质，因为这些药物早已超过了药典允许的这类药物的最终使用期限。”
得克萨斯州今年迄今已处决6人，在霍华德之后还有两人被安排处决，这将使2026年全国处决人数达到30人。
一段被监控录像拍下的杀人案
46岁的霍华德在2000年杀害了42岁的维基·斯沃陶特，被判一级谋杀罪。斯沃陶特在抢劫过程中胸部中枪身亡。庭审中出示的证据包括便利店的监控录像，录像显示霍华德开枪击中了斯沃陶特。
根据法庭记录，事发时20岁的霍华德从这家位于休斯顿东北约100英里的小型乡村城镇锡尔比的商店中抢走了114美元和一盒香烟。
他的律师辩称霍华德存在智力障碍，因此应当暂停对他的处决。但州方表示，他并未提交证据证明自己符合智力障碍索赔的相关要求。
![这张由得克萨斯州刑事司法部提供的照片拍摄于2022年10月28日，图中为贾马尔·霍华德。得克萨斯州刑事司法部 via 美联社]
他向美国最高法院提起的暂缓处决上诉正在审理中。
最高法院在2002年禁止对智力障碍者执行死刑，但同时允许各州自行决定认定智力障碍的标准。
以药物问题为由提出的暂缓行刑动议
周三早些时候在得克萨斯州刑事上诉法院提交的动议显示，霍华德的律师曾请求获取得克萨斯州刑事司法部计划使用的戊巴比妥致命剂量的相关信息。他们表示，尽管州政府“多年来一直披露此类信息”，但司法部还是请求州总检察长就是否必须披露该信息给出意见。
霍华德的律师称，得克萨斯州总检察长的意见预计要到周三之后才能出具，这意味着霍华德无法就州政府是否会披露相关信息的决定提起诉讼。
周三上午，得克萨斯州官员并未回应置评请求。
今年美国的处决情况
佛罗里达州今年迄今已执行16起死刑，数量居全美各州之首。大多数保留死刑的州都将致命注射作为主要处决方式。
田纳西州共和党州长比尔·李已暂停该州今年剩余的所有处决行动。
一封发给受害者家属的邮件显示，前陆军少校尼达尔·哈桑的处决日期定为12月3日，将在他发动袭击的同一军事基地执行。哈桑在2009年胡德堡枪击案中造成13人死亡。
哈桑将被行刑队处决，这将是美国自1961年以来首次军事处决。五角大楼发言人肖恩·帕内尔周一晚些时候表示，使用陆军行刑队的计划由国防部长皮特·赫格斯提出，已获得特朗普总统批准。
Lawyers seek to block today’s execution of Texas man, citing Christa Pike’s botched lethal injection
October 7, 2026 / 11:11 AM EDT / CBS/AP
Lawyers for a Texas man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk are asking a judge to stay his execution by lethal injection set for Wednesday, citing the failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee last week.
This would be the first execution scheduled in the U.S. since Pike.
Because the same drug used in her attempted execution —pentobarbital— would be used in Texas for Jamaal Howard, his attorneys argued the drug poses the same risks, and said they believe the state’s supply had become degraded.
Pike’s lawyers are seeking more information about what went wrong after the 50-year-old survived two doses of pentobarbital. She was hospitalized and, as of Tuesday, was awake and speaking.
In a statement Tuesday, her attorneys said she was “conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical medical care,” but noted “her prognosis remains unclear” and “at a minimum” they “expect a long recovery.”
They also said “despite the severe damage she endured to her arms, she is still handcuffed and shackled to the bed.”
One of her attorneys, Steve Ferrell, told “CBS Mornings” on Monday that doctors were working to clear her body of the pentobarbital and that she was on a ventilator.
Her attorneys have alleged her execution was marred by blown veins, where a needle goes all the way through a vein and causes a leak of blood and fluid, as well as Tennessee’s deteriorated pentobarbital and a lack of emergency medical care.
“There is a similar risk,” Howard’s attorneys wrote, “that Texas’s execution drugs are likewise degraded, as they are far past the original beyond-use dates that the pharmacopeia allows for drugs of this kind.”
Texas has executed six people so far this year, with two more scheduled after Howard, which would be the 30th execution nationwide in 2026.
A killing caught on surveillance video
Howard, 46, was found guilty of capital murder in the 2000 killing of Vickie Swartout, 42, who was shot once in the chest during a robbery. Evidence presented at the trial included the store’s surveillance video, which showed Howard shooting Swartout.
Howard, who was 20 at the time, took $114 and a carton of cigarettes from the store in the small, rural town of Silsbee, located about 100 miles northeast of Houston, according to court records.
His attorneys have argued Howard is intellectually disabled and his execution should be halted. The state said he has not presented evidence that would show he meets the requirements for a claim of intellectual disability.
This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Jamaal Howard on Oct. 28, 2022. Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP
He has an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court pending to stop the execution.
The Supreme Court in 2002 had barred the execution of intellectually disabled people. But it has given states some discretion in how they determine such disabilities.
Motion to stay because of drugs
The motion filed in the Court of Criminal Appeals in Texas early Wednesday said Howard’s attorneys had filed requests for information about the lethal dose of pentobarbital the Texas Department of Criminal Justice planned to use. They say the department asked for a state attorney general opinion about whether they would have to disclose that information, despite a “years-long practice of disclosing information.”
The Texas attorney general opinion is not expected to be returned until after Wednesday, meaning Howard can’t litigate whatever decision the state might make on releasing that information, they say.
Texas officials did not immediately return a request for comment Wednesday morning.
Executions in the U.S. this year
Florida has carried out 16 executions so far this year, the most of any state. Most states that allow executions use lethal injection as their primary method.
Tennessee’s Republican Gov. Bill Lee has halted the one remaining execution for the rest of the year.
An execution date for former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people in a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, has been set for Dec. 3, and will take place at the same post where he carried out his attack, according to an email sent to the families of victims.
Hasan is set to die by firing squad in what will be the first military execution since 1961. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said late Monday the plan to use an Army firing squad was recommended by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and approved by President Trump.
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