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处决失败后，克里斯塔·派克的律师质疑对她的隔离
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自上次报道以来的变化
35 小时后
康复不等于医学结论
“那一夜之后，没有哪一刻我是不痛的，”派克说。她描述了手臂、双手和喉咙的疼痛，持续的说话困难，以及不仅仅是身体上的痛苦。她感谢那些给予她善意和支持的人，并表示自己正努力一天一天地康复。17
但康复并不等于安然无恙。
两次给药，一场处决程序
使用两剂也不能证明有多少药物进入了派克的血液。一名媒体见证者称，程序开始约一小时后听到响亮的鼾声；她最终被救护车送往医院。一份律师提交的文件称，医护人员用了约十根针，并在双臂尝试了多个静脉注射部位，这表明给药前静脉可能已经破裂。这是律师提出的一种可能原因，并非已经完成的调查结论。17
在我们10月13日的广播报道中，我们报道了一起急救电话处理混乱事件：来电者描述一名囚犯失去意识、呼吸缓慢而费力；有人请求派救护车，随后却收到错误信息，称来电是假的，无需提供帮助。这段经历值得对急救响应展开审查，但并不能证明注射失败的原因，也不能证明有人意图阻挠救治。
法院于10月7日下令保存处决相关证据。原定10月23日举行的后续听证会在法官审议多项动议期间取消。另一方面，CBS News审查了田纳西州自2007年以来的处决规程，发现条款变得日益含糊。今年早些时候，官员尝试了一个多小时，仍未能为托尼·卡鲁瑟斯建立静脉通路；他因此获得一年缓期。这些都是深入审查的理由，不能取代对派克处决事件的调查结论。17
一项判决，以及另一个家庭的失去
李所表达的预期仍是：“我猜她的刑罚会和以前一样，除非法院另有裁定。”这既不是法院裁决，也不是正式拒绝赦免的决定。请求李运用其本人的减刑权，仍是与法院可能采取的行动分开的事项。17
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处决失败后，克里斯塔·派克的律师质疑对她的隔离
播出原貌
- Christa Pike's lawyers are fighting to end her isolation after she survived an execution.
- On October thirtieth, we reported her first public statement describing constant pain and difficulty speaking. Her lawyers have since asked a federal judge to intervene over the conditions of her recovery.
- Her death sentence remains in place, while Tennessee's remaining executions this year are paused. Will the court require changes to the isolation in which she says she's trying to heal?
- Pike, who's fifty, is recovering at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville. Tennessee tried to execute her at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, also in Nashville, on September thirtieth.
- Her lawyers allege she's being separated indefinitely from other prisoners in the infirmary. Pike has also described spending much of her recovery alone in a prison medical ward. The lawyers want a judge to enforce a settlement reached with Tennessee in 2024.
- The emergency motion asks the court to change the restrictions surrounding Pike's medical care. Her lawyers say those restrictions violate the confinement agreement. Receiving treatment and having lawful conditions of confinement are separate questions for the state to address.
- Pike dictated her statement from the infirmary. She described walking into the execution chamber prepared to die, after saying goodbye to people who had supported her. She said she hadn't imagined a life beyond that night, then woke several days later alone in a hospital, confused and hurting.
- Pike said, “There hasn’t been a moment since that night when I haven’t been in pain.” She described pain in her arms, hands and throat, trouble speaking, and suffering that reaches beyond her physical injuries.
- She said she's recovering and getting stronger, adding, “But healing is not the same as being okay.” She thanked the medical workers who saved her life and people who offered kindness and prayers. Those words came from the statement released October thirtieth.
- Tennessee administered two doses of pentobarbital, the execution drug, during one session. Pike continued breathing. How much of the drug reached her bloodstream, and why it failed to kill her, remain unanswered.
- The number two refers to doses within that September thirtieth execution session. A witness heard loud snoring about an hour after the procedure began. An ambulance eventually took Pike to a hospital.
- Her lawyers later described pneumonia, a blood clot and an inability to swallow or move her arms and hands after she regained consciousness. One compared her swollen hands to an inflated surgical glove. Another described visible injuries resembling severe burns.
- Pike received ventilator support during her hospital stay, which was described as ten days. One account describes five days unconscious on a ventilator. Her lawyers said she later began walking, and Pike now says she still struggles to speak.
- The burn comparison describes how the injuries looked to her lawyer. Her continuing medical needs and long-term recovery are still only partly described.
- Pike returned to prison in October. Our October thirtieth broadcast discussed an end-of-September discharge reference that couldn't fit the chronology. That reference was wrong. The remaining discrepancy is between October ninth and October tenth.
- On October thirteenth, we had reported October tenth. A public announcement on that date doesn't necessarily mean the transfer happened that day. The reported ten-day hospital stay doesn't settle that discrepancy. The state-court proceedings about her hospital return are separate from the federal isolation challenge.
- A court ordered execution evidence preserved on October seventh. A follow-up hearing scheduled for October twenty-third was canceled while the judge considered multiple motions. Pike's lawyers have also alleged problems with the attempts to establish intravenous access.
- A lawyer's filing describes about ten needles and several attempted sites on both arms. The lawyer suggests veins may have ruptured before the drug was administered. That's a possible explanation the investigation has to examine.
- Emergency communications also showed confusion after a caller described Pike as unconscious with slow, labored breathing. An ambulance request was followed by erroneous information that the call was false and help wasn't needed. That confusion complicated the emergency response.
- The confusion doesn't explain the failed injections. Tennessee's corrections staff have defended their methods. A review of execution protocols stretching back to 2007 found increasingly vague provisions. Earlier this year, officials also couldn't establish an IV for Tony Carruthers after trying for more than an hour. He received a one-year reprieve.
- Governor Bill Lee appointed Christopher Hansen interim corrections commissioner on October thirtieth, effective immediately. Hansen takes over after Frank Strada's departure amid scrutiny of the failed execution. The outside review still has to determine what went wrong.
- Hansen will retain his assistant commissioner duties, including oversight of probation and parole operations and about eleven hundred employees. Lee has paused executions for the rest of 2026 during the review. That includes Gary Wayne Sutton's execution, which had been scheduled for December third.
- Lee said, “I suspect her sentence will be the same as before unless determined otherwise by the courts.” Pike's lawyers are asking him to use his own authority to reduce her sentence to life without parole.
- Her attorney Stephen Ferrell, with Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee, says the team is considering legal options while she heals. The federal motion targets her confinement conditions. Whether Tennessee can try to execute her again is a separate legal question.
- An earlier October poll put support for another attempt at one-third of Americans. Public opinion won't determine what the courts allow. Pike's existing sentence stems from the torture and killing of nineteen-year-old Colleen Slemmer.
- Pike was eighteen when she helped kill Slemmer in 1995. They had met through a job-training program for low-income young people. Pike's then-boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp and another participant were involved in the attack.
- The group attacked Slemmer in a wooded part of the University of Tennessee campus. The cutting and stabbing involved a meat cleaver and box cutter and lasted up to an hour. Pike has spent about thirty years in prison.
- Shipp was legally a juvenile at the time, was spared the death penalty and remains imprisoned. Slemmer's mother witnessed the failed execution. She says attention to Pike's condition has displaced attention to her daughter, and that the state owes her an apology.
- Pike said, “I continue to think about my victim’s family and the terrible pain and loss they have endured.” She also blamed incompetence for the failed execution. Investigators haven't determined its cause.
- The outside review has no announced reporting deadline, and officials haven't said whether they'll publish its full findings. No final clemency decision or new execution date has been announced. A federal judge's decision on the isolation request is still pending, while Pike's death sentence remains in place.
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