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The court suspended the execution of Christa Gail Pike, who was sentenced to death for a murder committed in Tennessee when she was 18 years old.

The court suspended the execution of Christa Gail Pike, who was sentenced to death for a murder committed in Tennessee when she was 18 years old.

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September 30th, 2026

The court suspended the execution of Christa Gail Pike, who was sentenced to death for a murder committed in Tennessee when she was 18 years old.

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Tennessee had been scheduled to execute Christa Gail Pike on Wednesday, but the execution was halted about an hour before it was to take place, because a federal appeals court wanted to review whether allegations of childhood sexual abuse and rape that she had raised at sentencing had been given sufficient consideration.

田纳西州原定于周三对克里斯塔·盖尔·派克执行死刑,但在行刑前约一小时,该死刑被暂停,原因是联邦上诉法院希望审查她在量刑时提出的关于童年性虐待和强奸的指控是否已得到充分考虑。

Pike, now 50, and her boyfriend were convicted of stabbing and beating Colleen Slemmer, who was 19 at the time, in 1995; Slemmer had been their classmate at a vocational training institution in Knoxville.

现年50岁的派克与她的男友因1995年刺伤并殴打当时19岁的科琳·斯莱默而被定罪,斯莱默是他们在诺克斯维尔一家职业培训机构的同学。

Pike would have become the first woman to be executed in Tennessee in at least 200 years.

派克原本将成为田纳西州至少200年来首位被处决的女性。

At the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, execution witnesses and other personnel had already gathered, but then the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit halted the execution by a 2-to-1 vote.

在纳什维尔的河湾最高安全监狱内,行刑证人及其他人员已聚集,然而随后美国第六巡回上诉法院以2比1的投票结果中止了执行。

The case attracted widespread attention at the time of the murder, partly because a pentagram had been carved on Slemmer's body, while other elements of the crime fueled fears of Satanism during the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s and 1990s.

这起案件在凶杀发生时引起了广泛关注,部分原因在于斯莱默尸体上刻有一个五角星,同时犯罪的其他元素在20世纪80年代和90年代的“撒旦恐慌”期间引发了对撒旦崇拜的恐惧。

After the stay of execution was issued, the Tennessee Attorney General immediately appealed to the United States Supreme Court.

暂缓执行令下达后,田纳西州总检察长立即向美国最高法院提出上诉。

Witnesses and the media remained at the prison in case the Supreme Court allowed the execution to proceed.

证人和媒体仍留在监狱,以防最高法院允许执行继续进行。

In its appeal to the Supreme Court, the Attorney General's office wrote that the last-minute stay of execution had traumatized Slymer's family and rewarded Pike's lawyer for his "abusive delaying tactics."

总检察长办公室在向最高法院的上诉中写道,最后一刻暂停执行给斯莱默的家人造成了创伤,并奖励了派克律师的“滥用拖延战术”。

Parker's lawyer argued that disregarding the experiences she endured while growing up would violate any fair conception of capital punishment.

派克的律师表示,倘若无视她成长过程中所经历的种种,便违背了有关死刑执行的任何公平观点。

They wrote: "It is unbelievable that in the 21st century, the criminal justice system is preparing to execute a survivor of rape and child sexual abuse, while her jury never had the opportunity to consider these facts when weighing the defendant's moral culpability."

他们写道:“令人难以置信的是,在21世纪,刑事司法系统竟准备处决一名强奸和儿童性虐待的幸存者,而她的陪审团却从未有机会在权衡被告的道德罪责时考虑这些事实。”

As the execution date approaches, this case has once again ignited debate over whether young offenders should be sentenced to death.

随着行刑日期的迫近,这一事件再度激起了围绕年轻罪犯是否应判处死刑的争论。

Parker does not deny that she committed the killing, but her supporters argue that the state ought to take into account her age at the time, her mental illness, and a history of severe sexual abuse, including the fact that she was raped from the time she was a toddler.

派克并不否认自己实施了杀人行为,但她的支持者主张,州政府理应考量派克当时的年龄、精神疾病以及严重的性虐待史,包括她从蹒跚学步时起就遭到强奸。

Assistant Federal Public Defender Stephen Ferrell said that Parker's death sentence is an anomaly, because similar sentences for other 18-year-old offenders in Tennessee have all been overturned.

助理联邦公设辩护人斯蒂芬·费雷尔表示,派克的死刑判决实属异类,因为田纳西州其他18岁罪犯的此类判决均已被撤销。

After the killing, Parker was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.

杀人事件发生后,派克被诊断出患有双相情感障碍与创伤后应激障碍。

In her clemency petition, she claimed that she had only intended to struggle with Slaymer, but that when she was unable to "hit the brakes," she killed him in a frenzied attack.

在其赦免请愿书中,她声称自己原本只想与斯莱默搏斗,然而当无法“刹车”时,她却在疯狂的袭击中将其杀害。

In a statement, Pike said, "At the time, I was nothing more than an 18-year-old child suffering from mental illness.

派克在一份声明中说:“当时我不过是一个18岁、患有精神疾病的孩子。

It took me many years to grasp the gravity of what I had done, let alone come to terms with how many lives I had affected.

我花了很多年才意识到自己所作所为的严重性,更不用说接受我影响了多少人的生活。

I took the lives of someone's child, sister, and friend.

我夺走了别人的孩子、姐妹、朋友的生命。

Now the thought that I was capable of committing such a crime makes me feel sick."

现在想到我有能力犯下这样的罪行,让我感到恶心。”

Slemer's mother hopes that lethal injection will still be carried out, and said she has waited for decades, longing to see Parker's sentence executed.

斯莱默的母亲希望注射死刑能够继续执行,并表示她已等待数十年,期盼看到派克的判决得以执行。

"Every time I think about it, I think about Colleen feeling that pain, trying to get up and run," May Martinez said in a phone interview on Saturday.

“每次我想到这件事,我都会想到科琳感受到那种痛苦,试图站起来逃跑,”梅·马丁内斯在周六的电话采访中说。

Martinez said that a certain group helped raise funds to finance her and her husband's trip from Florida to witness the execution.

马丁内斯表示,某团体协助筹措资金,以资助她与丈夫从佛罗里达州前往见证此次处决。

After the execution was stayed on Wednesday, she did not respond to any messages.

周三处决被暂缓执行后,她未予回复任何消息。

Martinez stated that when deciding Parker's fate, her daughter's age should likewise constitute an important consideration.

马丁内斯表示,在裁定派克命运之际,她女儿的年龄理应同样构成一项重要考量。

"There is not a single day, not a single minute, when I do not miss Colleen.

“没有哪一天,没有哪一分钟,我不曾思念科琳。

The holidays are the hardest to endure," she said, noting that her daughter would have turned 51 in early September.

假期是最难熬的,”她说,并指出她的女儿在9月初本应迎来51岁生日。

This murder case shook the city of Knoxville.

这起凶杀案震动了诺克斯维尔市。

According to the prosecutors' account, Pike, fearing that Slemmer was trying to take her boyfriend away from her, lured her into a wooded area on January 12, 1995.

据检察官陈述,派克因担心斯莱默企图夺走她的男友,遂于1995年1月12日将其诱骗至一片树林之中。

Pike cut Slemmer with a utility knife and beat her with a large chunk of asphalt.

派克以美工刀割伤斯莱默,并用一大块沥青对其施以殴打。

Pike's boyfriend, Ship, confessed that it was he who had carved a pentagram—a star-shaped symbol associated with Satan worship—onto her body.

派克的男友希普供认,是他将一个五角星——一种与撒旦崇拜相关的星形符号——刻在了她的身上。

At the time of the crime, Ship was only 17 years old and was sentenced to life imprisonment, with the possibility of parole.

犯罪发生之际,希普年仅17岁,被判处终身监禁,且具备假释的可能性。

Pike, however, was the only one sentenced to death.

派克则是唯一被判处死刑的人。

According to Robin M. Maher, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, Tennessee has not executed a woman for at least 200 years.

据死刑信息中心执行主任罗宾·M·马赫称,田纳西州至少200年来没有处决过女性。

However, because earlier records may be incomplete, it is difficult to know the exact details of the last woman executed in the state.

不过,由于更早的记录可能不完整,因此很难确切了解该州最后一名被处死女性的详细信息。

According to the center, since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, 18 women have been executed in the United States, accounting for roughly 1% of all executions.

据该中心称,自最高法院于1976年恢复死刑以来,美国已有18名女性被处死,约占所有处决的1%。

Recently, in 2023, the state of Missouri executed Amber McLaughlin for a 2003 murder, a move regarded as the first execution of a transgender woman in the United States.

近期,密苏里州于2023年对安珀·麦克劳克林执行了死刑,她因2003年的一起杀人案被处死,此举被视为美国首次处决跨性别女性。

In 2021, the federal government executed Lisa Montgomery, marking the first execution of a female inmate by the US government in nearly 70 years.

2021年,联邦政府处决了丽莎·蒙哥马利,这是近70年来美国政府首次处决女性囚犯。

Following an execution carried out in Florida on Tuesday, Pikeburn is set to become the 30th person executed in the United States this year.

在佛罗里达州于周二执行了一次处决之后,派克本即将成为美国本年度第30位被处决的人。

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