Pike, now 50, and her boyfriend were convicted of stabbing and beating Colleen Slemmer, then 19, in 1995 — a fellow student with the two at a vocational training institution in Knoxville.
现年50岁的派克与其男友,因1995年刺伤并殴打时年19岁的科琳·斯莱默而获定罪——斯莱默系二人在诺克斯维尔一所职业培训机构的同窗。
Pike would have become the first woman executed in Tennessee in at least 200 years.
派克原将成为田纳西州至少200年来首位被处决的女性。
Inside the maximum-security prison at Riverbend in Nashville, execution witnesses and other relevant personnel had already assembled, when the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, by a two-to-one vote, ruled to stay the execution.
置身于纳什维尔河湾最高安全级别监狱之内,行刑见证者及其他相关人员已然集结完毕,旋即,美国第六巡回上诉法院以二比一的表决结果裁定暂缓执行。
The case attracted widespread attention at the time of the murder, partly because a pentagram had been carved into Slemmer's body, and, together with various other elements of the crime, this inflamed fears of Satanic worship during the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s and 1990s.
这起案件之所以在凶杀案发之际引发广泛关注,部分缘由在于斯莱默的尸身上被刻有一枚五角星,兼之犯罪的其他诸般要素,在20世纪80年代至90年代的“撒旦恐慌”时期,煽惑起了人们对撒旦崇拜的恐惧。
No sooner had the stay of execution been issued than the Attorney General of Tennessee promptly lodged an appeal with the United States Supreme Court.
暂缓执行令甫一颁布,田纳西州总检察长旋即向美国最高法院提起上诉。
Witnesses and media personnel remained detained in the prison, in anticipation of the Supreme Court granting permission for the execution proceedings to resume.
证人与媒体人员仍羁留于监狱之中,以备最高法院若准许执行程序续行。
Pike does not deny that he committed the killings; nevertheless, his supporters contend that the state ought to have weighed the age at which Pike carried out the offense, the mental illness from which he suffers, and a history of severe sexual abuse stretching back to his toddler years, when he was repeatedly raped.
派克并不否认自己实施了杀人行为,然而其支持者主张,州政府理应权衡派克作案时的年龄、其所罹患的精神疾病,以及可追溯至蹒跚学步时期便屡遭强奸的严重性虐待史。
Stephen Ferrell, an assistant federal public defender, points out that the death sentence imposed on Pike is a veritable anomaly, inasmuch as comparable sentences handed down to other 18-year-old offenders in Tennessee have all been vacated.
助理联邦公设辩护人斯蒂芬·费雷尔指出,派克所获死刑判决实属异类,缘由在于田纳西州其他18岁罪犯的同类判决均已被撤销。
Following the homicide, Pike was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
凶杀案发后,派克被诊断出罹患双相情感障碍与创伤后应激障碍。
In her clemency petition, she claimed that she had initially intended only to struggle with Slaymer, yet when she was unable to "hit the brakes," she ended up killing him in a frenzied assault.
在其赦免请愿书中,她声称自己起初仅欲与斯莱默搏斗,然而当无法“刹车”之际,她竟在疯狂的袭击中将其杀害。
In a statement, Pike candidly admitted, "At the time, I was nothing more than an 18-year-old youth afflicted with mental illness.
派克在一份声明中坦言:“彼时,我不过是一个罹患精神疾病的18岁少年。
It took several years before I gradually came to grasp the gravity of my actions, let alone confront how many lives I had affected.
历经数载,我才逐渐认清自身行径的严重性,遑论直面我究竟波及了多少人的生活。
I deprived others of their children, sisters, and friends.
我剥夺了他人的孩子、姐妹、朋友的生命。
Now, the thought that I was capable of committing such a crime fills me with profound disgust."
如今思及自己竟有犯下如此罪行的能力,令我深感厌恶。”
"There is not a day, not a minute, when I do not think of Colleen.
“没有哪一天,没有哪一分钟,我不曾思念科琳。
The holidays are the most agonizing," she said, noting that her daughter would have turned 51 in early September.
假期是最为煎熬的,”她说,并指出她的女儿在9月初本应年满51岁。
This homicide appalled the city of Knoxville.
这桩凶杀案令诺克斯维尔市为之骇然。
According to the prosecutors' account, Pike, apprehensive that Sleimer was endeavoring to steal her boyfriend away, lured Sleimer to a wooded area on January 12, 1995.
据检察官陈述,派克因忧心斯莱默企图夺走其男友,遂于1995年1月12日将斯莱默诱至一片林地。
Pike slashed Sleimer with a utility knife and then bludgeoned her with a large chunk of asphalt.
派克以美工刀割伤斯莱默,复以一大块沥青对其施以殴打。
Pike's boyfriend, Heap, confessed that it was he who had carved a pentagram—a star-shaped symbol associated with Satanism—into her body.
派克之男友希普供认,是他将一枚五角星——一种与撒旦崇拜相关联的星形符号——镌刻于其躯体之上。
At the time of the offense, Ship was merely seventeen years old, and was therefore sentenced to life imprisonment, with the possibility of parole not excluded.
案发之际,希普年方十七,遂被判处终身监禁,且不排除假释之可能。
Pike, by contrast, was the sole individual to be sentenced to death.
派克则系唯一被科处死刑者。
According to Robin M. Maher, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, Tennessee has not executed a woman for at least two centuries.
据死刑信息中心执行主任罗宾·M·马赫所述,田纳西州至少两个世纪以来未曾对女性执行过死刑。
However, because earlier records may well be incomplete, it is by no means easy to ascertain with certainty the detailed particulars of the last woman executed in the state.
然而,由于更早期的记录恐有阙漏之虞,欲确切厘清该州最后一名遭处决女性的详尽信息,实非易事。
According to disclosures by the center, since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, 18 women have been executed in the United States, a figure that accounts for approximately 1 percent of all executions carried out in the country.
据该中心披露,自最高法院于1976年恢复死刑以来,美国已有18名女性被处决,这一数字约占该国全部处决案例的1%。
In 2023, Missouri executed Amber McLaughlin — put to death for a 2003 murder — a move widely regarded as the first execution of a transgender woman in American history.
密苏里州于2023年对安珀·麦克劳克林执行死刑——她因2003年的一桩杀人案而被处决,此举被普遍视为美国历史上首次对跨性别女性处以极刑。
That came after the federal government executed Lisa Montgomery in 2021, marking the first time in nearly 70 years that the U.S. government had put a female inmate to death.
而在此之前,联邦政府已于2021年处决了丽莎·蒙哥马利,这是近70年来美国政府首次对女性囚犯执行死刑。