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两剂药物,持续疼痛:田纳西州死刑执行失败后,克丽丝塔·派克发声
在挺过两剂戊巴比妥后,派克首次公开谈及持续的疼痛。她的律师寻求将刑罚改为终身监禁;州长比尔·李预计她的死刑判决会维持不变。
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Christa Pike死刑执行失败后,她的救援请求被当作虚假警报我们当时说尚无定论的问题
失败的原因,以及药物是否进入她的血液。
尚无定论失败原因仍未得到解释,包括戊巴比妥是否按预期进入她的血液。
斯坦顿何时公布报告,以及调查结果是否会公开。
尚无定论新报道并未确认斯坦顿何时公布调查结果,也未确认是否承诺完整公开结果。
斯特拉达的辞职将于10月底生效,届时将任命一名临时专员。
尚无定论新报道并未确认预期的领导层交接,也没有指出临时专员人选。
萨顿的智力障碍主张是否会获得听证。
尚无定论目前没有新信息能够证明萨顿的智力障碍主张是否会获得听证。
现在
在挺过两剂戊巴比妥后,派克首次公开谈及持续的疼痛。她的律师寻求将刑罚改为终身监禁;州长比尔·李预计她的死刑判决会维持不变。
两剂戊巴比妥都没能杀死克丽丝塔·派克。田纳西州试图对她执行死刑一个月后,她说自己没有一刻不在疼痛。她的律师希望将她的死刑减为终身监禁。州长比尔·李已表示,他预计判决会维持不变。1
这意味着,派克在一次死刑执行尝试后仍在康复,却没有得到不会再面临一次执行的保证。她的律师于10月30日星期五发布了她的首份公开声明,其中讲述了她自己的康复经历。声明没有附带医疗预后,也没有解释死刑执行为何失败,或对她要求终身监禁的请求作出最终决定。
50岁的派克在黛布拉·K·约翰逊康复中心的医务室口述了这份声明。她此前住院,之后被送回该中心。她说,自己走进死刑执行室时已准备好平静地死去,从未想过自己能活过执行日期。可她醒来时,却独自一人,迷迷糊糊地躺在医院病床上。1
那天晚上以后,我没有一刻不在疼痛。
她说:“我的身体疼。手臂疼。手疼。喉咙疼。我现在说话仍很吃力。”“疼痛不只是身体上的。我的心里和灵魂深处也有痛苦。”这些是派克对自身症状的描述,并非对伤势程度或是否会留下永久伤害的独立临床评估。1
她的律师此前称,9月30日的执行尝试后,她患上肺炎,手臂严重肿胀,而且无法吞咽。周五的声明补充了她仍有说话困难,以及她认为自己正在变得更强壮。她说:“但康复并不等于一切安好。”声明无法证明此前的并发症是否已经消退,也无法证明她是否已恢复手臂的全部功能。2
我们报道以来发生的变化
10月8日,HeyDay News报道称,死刑执行尝试六天后,派克醒来并开始说话,但病情仍很严重,双臂都无法活动。我们还报道了戴维森县衡平法院大法官艾莎·迈尔斯10月7日下令要求田纳西州官员保全此次执行尝试的证据。由此可见,她醒来并非最新进展。最新进展是,她以自己的名义发表公开声明,讲述此后的经历。
10月13日,我们报道了有关救护车请求是否属实的疑问,持续了约半小时。一名来电者称,执行药物注射后,一名失去意识的囚犯呼吸缓慢且困难。随后,调度人员被告知该报告是假的,不需要医疗救助。这一经过引出了有关紧急救援的另一个问题;仅凭这一点,并不能解释致命注射为何失败。
派克已返回监狱这一点有据可查,但她离开医院的确切日期仍不清楚。BBC News 10月30日的报道说,她是在9月底出院的,这一日期与我们此前报道的10月初康复时间线并不吻合。目前不应将此视为定论。新报道提供了她本人的声明和律师此前的描述,而非新的独立医疗评估。1 2
派克感谢救了她性命的医护人员,也感谢那些对她表示善意的人。她的感激之情并未解答紧急救助是如何抵达的问题,正如她对病情好转的描述也无法证明她可能仍需何种治疗或康复。1
判决未变,解释缺席
李本周对记者说:“我猜她的判决会和以前一样,除非法院另有裁定。”他表达的是一种预期,而非法院裁决。这也不等于正式宣布最终驳回律师提出的减刑请求。目前尚未宣布减刑,也没有公布再次执行死刑的日期。1
州长已要求展开调查,并推迟了田纳西州今年安排的另一场注射死刑。这些举措承认,此次执行失败有待调查。但两者都没有改变派克的判决。现有报道没有提供已完成的调查结论,没有解释药物是否按预期进入她的血液,也没有说明何时公布调查结果。1
这里有两个不应混为一谈的决定:查明田纳西州是否以及在哪些方面做错了事,以及决定是否应让派克继续背负死刑判决。调查不等于赦免。认为判决会继续维持,也不能解释为何一次死刑执行让一名囚犯病情危重却仍然存活。
派克被判刑所涉罪行仍是理解这件事的关键。1995年,她和当时的男友塔达里尔·希普殴打、折磨并杀害了19岁的科琳·斯莱默。两人在一个面向低收入青年的职业培训营认识了她。杀人过程中包括刺杀。派克当时18岁。希普在法律上属于未成年人,因此免于死刑;他仍在服刑。派克已在狱中度过约30年。1 2
派克在声明中指责负责执行死刑的人无能,同时也提到了斯莱默的家人。她说:“我仍会想到受害者的家人,以及他们承受的巨大痛苦和失去亲人的悲痛。”关于无能的指控出自她本人;新报道并未查明此次失败的具体原因。斯莱默的死和她家人的丧亲之痛,并不会因为死刑执行室里发生的事而消失。1
派克说,她不知道自己为何幸存,也不知道接下来会发生什么。目前,州政府在调查执行死刑的尝试时,仍让她背负原有的死刑判决。她说,眼下她的任务更简单:“现在,我正努力康复,一天一天来。”1
播出原貌 15 行
- Christa Pike describes constant pain after surviving two lethal injections. Her lawyers want her death sentence reduced to life imprisonment, while Tennessee's governor expects it to stay in place. Whether she will recover under that same death sentence is still unresolved.
- On October 8, we reported that Pike had awakened and begun speaking six days after the attempt. She was still seriously ill and unable to move either arm. Now, in her first public statement, she describes continuing pain and difficulty speaking.
- Pike, who's 50, survived two doses of pentobarbital, the execution drug, on September 30. The injections left her critically ill. She was taken to hospital and later returned to prison. Her attorneys released her statement on Friday, October 30, a month after the execution attempt.
- Pike dictated the statement from the infirmary at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center. She said she entered the execution chamber prepared to die in peace, then woke alone and confused in a hospital bed.
- She said she'd never contemplated a life beyond her execution date. Now she describes pain in her arms, hands and throat, along with emotional suffering. Her lawyers had earlier described pneumonia, substantial swelling in her arms and an inability to swallow.
- Pike said, “There hasn’t been a moment since that night when I haven’t been in pain.” She also described pain beyond her physical injuries, saying, “There is pain in my mind and in my soul.”
- Pike says she's recovering and getting stronger. But she adds, “But healing is not the same as being okay.” She thanked the medical workers who saved her life and the people who showed her kindness. The struggle she describes follows unanswered questions about how emergency help reached her.
- On October 13, we reported roughly half an hour of confusion over whether an ambulance request was genuine. A caller described an unconscious prisoner breathing slowly and with difficulty. Dispatch was subsequently told the report was false and medical help wasn't needed.
- A judge had already ordered Tennessee officials to preserve evidence from the execution attempt. Davidson County Chancellor I’Ashea Myles issued that order on October 7. The emergency-call sequence adds to the demand for an explanation, but the cause of the failed execution still hasn't been explained.
- Governor Bill Lee expects Pike's death sentence to continue. This week, he said, “I suspect her sentence will be the same as before unless determined otherwise by the courts.” Her attorneys are asking him to commute it to life imprisonment.
- Lee has called for an investigation into the failed execution. He's also postponed Tennessee's other lethal injection scheduled for this year. Pike's death sentence remains in place, and Lee hasn't announced a final decision on her lawyers' request. There's no announced date for another execution attempt.
- Pike has returned to prison, although the exact date she left hospital is unclear. Her statement gives her own account of recovery. Lee hasn't said when investigative findings will be released or whether the full findings will be made public.
- Colleen Slemmer was 19 when Pike and her then-boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, beat, tortured and killed her in 1995. The killing included a stabbing. They'd met at a job-training camp for low-income young people. Pike was 18. She's now spent about 30 years in prison.
- Shipp was legally a juvenile when they killed Slemmer, so he was spared the death penalty. He remains imprisoned. Pike blamed incompetence for the execution attempt and said she continues to think about her victim's family and their pain and loss.
- Pike says she doesn't know why she survived or what comes next. Her request for life imprisonment remains unresolved while the state investigates the attempt to execute her. She described her immediate task this way: “For now, I am trying to heal, one day at a time.”
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