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The court stopped the execution of Christa Gail Pike. She killed someone in Tennessee when she was 18. She was sentenced to death.

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September 30th, 2026

The court stopped the execution of Christa Gail Pike. She killed someone in Tennessee when she was 18. She was sentenced to death.

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Tennessee planned to execute Christa Gail Pike on Wednesday.

田納西州原定週三處決克里斯塔·蓋爾·派克。

She committed murder when she was 18. She was sentenced to death.

她18歲時犯下謀殺案，因此被判死刑。

But about one hour before the execution, a federal appeals court stopped it.

但在行刑前約一小時，聯邦上訴法院下令暫停處決。

The court wants to review one thing.

法院要審查一件事。

She said she was sexually abused and raped as a child. Did the court fully consider this when it decided her sentence?

她小時候遭性虐待和強姦的指控，是否在量刑時得到充分考慮。

Parker is now 50 years old.

派克現在50歲。

She and her boyfriend killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995. They were found guilty.

她和男友因1995年殺害19歲的科琳·斯萊默而被定罪。

Slemmer was their classmate at a job training school in Knoxville.

斯萊默是他們在諾克斯維爾一所職業培訓機構的同學。

Parker would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in at least 200 years.

派克原本會成為田納西州至少200年來首位被處決的女性。

A US appeals court stopped the execution. The vote was 2 to 1.

美國第六巡迴上訴法院以2比1的投票結果暫停處決。

After the stop order came, Tennessee's attorney general went to the U.S. Supreme Court. He went right away. He asked the court to let the execution happen.

暫停令下達後，田納西州總檢察長立即向美國最高法院提出上訴。

The attorney general's office wrote that the last-minute stop hurt Slemmer's family very much.

總檢察長辦公室寫道，最後一刻暫停處決給斯萊默的家人造成創傷。

The office also said this rewarded Pike's lawyers for their "abuse of delay tactics."

辦公室還說，這獎勵了派克律師的「濫用拖延戰術」。

Pike's lawyers said this was unfair. They said it ignored what she went through as she grew up.

派克的律師則表示，不考慮她成長過程中所經歷的事情，違反了對處決的任何公平觀點。

Parker does not deny that she committed murder.

派克並不否認犯下殺人罪。

Her supporters think the state should consider her age then. They also say it should consider her mental illness. They say it should consider her severe history of sexual abuse.

她的支持者認為，州政府應考慮她當時的年齡、精神疾病以及嚴重的性虐待歷史。

Slaemer's mother wants the lethal injection to go ahead.

斯萊默的母親希望注射死刑繼續進行。

She says she has waited for many years.

她說已等了幾十年。

She says her daughter's age should also matter when deciding Parker's fate.

她說，女兒的年齡在決定派克命運時也應該很重要。

September 30th, 2026

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The court stopped the execution of Christa Gail Pike. She killed someone in Tennessee when she was 18. She was sentenced to death.

The court stopped the execution of Christa Gail Pike. She killed someone in Tennessee when she was 18. She was sentenced to death.

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