克里斯塔·派克死刑执行失败后出院返狱

50岁的克里斯塔·派克在田纳西州9月30日进行的致命注射执行中幸存，随后从医院出院并被送返监狱13。这是美国死刑史上首次注射死刑执行失败的案件1。

派克在接受两剂五巴比妥盐注射后活了下来3。医生曾在周一宣布她脑死亡，但数天后她恢复意识，周二时甚至能够行走，虽然状态"有点迷茫"3。据派克所述，执行过程中她的手臂灼烧疼痛3。恢复意识后，派克的首句话是"我在哪里？""你是谁？"1

派克因1995年参与杀害19岁同学科琳·斯莱姆的罪行被判死刑，当时她年仅19岁，共犯塔达里尔·希普在17岁时被判终身监禁3。派克已在监狱服刑30年1。法院已命令田纳西州保留所有与这次失败执行相关的证据1。田纳西州助理检察长威尔·艾耶斯在周三的法庭听证会上表示，州是否打算重新安排执行仍不确定1。

这起事件引发了对美国死刑制度的广泛批评3。田纳西州最高监狱官员已宣布辞职，州长比尔·李则暂停了该州今年剩余时间的死刑执行3。

Christa Pike, a 50-year-old death row inmate in Tennessee, has been released from the hospital and returned to prison following a failed lethal injection execution attempt on September 30, 2024.13 Pike survived the administration of two doses of pentobarbital during the execution, marking what is believed to be the first case in history in which a lethal injection execution has failed.13

Medical staff initially declared Pike brain dead on Monday, but she regained consciousness days later and subsequently recovered the ability to walk.3 According to her attorneys, Pike described experiencing a burning sensation in her arm during the execution procedure.3 When Pike first regained consciousness, she asked "Where am I?" and "Who are you?"1 Her legal status remains uncertain, with Tennessee Assistant Attorney General Will Ayers expressing uncertainty about whether the state intends to reschedule her execution at a Wednesday court hearing.1 A court has ordered Tennessee to preserve all evidence related to the failed execution.1

Pike was convicted of the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, whom she and her boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp killed when Pike was 18 years old.13 She has served approximately 30 years in the Deborah K Johnson prison facility.3 Her co-defendant Shipp, who was 17 at the time of the crime, received a life sentence.3 Following the execution failure and resulting scrutiny, Tennessee's highest-ranking prison official resigned, and Governor Bill Lee suspended all executions in the state for the remainder of the year.3