跟进：田纳西州女死囚Pike行刑新细节披露：律师称团队扎针近十次、静脉异常警告下仍注入两剂药物

田纳西州死囚律师10月22日提交的一份法庭文件，披露了9月30日女死囚 Christa Pike 注射死刑执行失败当晚的新细节。文件称，行刑团队「用两个多小时试图杀死 Christa Pike 而未果」，在有迹象显示静脉输液管并未正常工作的情况下，仍推进注射了致命药物。（GSM 据《今日美国》与美联社报道）

该文件是死囚挑战田纳西州注射死刑程序的在审诉讼的一部分，意在把 Pike 行刑的指控并入该案。文件称，行刑人员为在 Pike 双臂建立静脉通道，用针扎了她近十次；他们多次以为已经接通一条可用的管路，随后又发现并非如此，推注生理盐水时也遇到困难。据在场见证行刑的 Pike 律师 Randy Spivey 的陈述，监狱长把推注困难归因于管路位置与胶带绑得太紧。美联社援引 Spivey 的声明报道，团队成员当时曾发出静脉可能已经「爆裂」的警告，其中一人说过类似「要么是血、要么是爆了，我得弄清楚」的话。

文件还称，行刑医生没有尝试建立中心静脉管路，而田纳西州的行刑规程允许这一替代做法。注射展开后，Pike 曾抱怨手臂感觉像「要胀爆了」，一处扎针点「烧得厉害」。第一剂药物注入后，她仍在与宗教顾问交谈，随后呼吸变得吃力，监狱方面拉上了分隔行刑室与见证人的帘幕。第二剂注入后，Spivey 注意到 Pike 右臂肘部以下发紫；据文件描述，她发出越来越响的呛咳与有节奏的喘息声，见证人在闭合的帘幕后等了近一个小时，其间她一直在挣扎着呼吸。

文件同时质疑当晚的应急处置：晚8时40分有人拨打911请求救护车，但急救人员一度被挡在门外，原因是监狱方面起初未能提供验证码，且调度方被错误告知该求救不属实；急救人员直到晚9时15分才获准进入监狱，Pike 于9时26分被运出。她此后近一周处于危重无意识状态，直到10月6日才恢复意识。她的律师后来报告，她出现了肺炎、血栓、行走与吞咽困难、认知问题，以及双臂与双手无法活动等伤情，全部伤情的程度尚未公开。该文件还对负责行刑的医生的资质提出了新的疑问。

Pike 现年50岁，1995年因折磨并杀害19岁的 Colleen Slemmer 被判处死刑。9月30日当晚，两轮戊巴比妥注射均未能致其死亡，她成为田纳西州两百多年来首位被执行死刑的女性未果的当事人。州长 Bill Lee 此后下令暂停该州2026年内其余全部死刑执行，并启动独立审查；田纳西州惩教署署长随后辞职。本站此前报道了她恢复意识的情况，此次法庭文件是该事件的最新进展，州政府尚未就文件中的新指控公开回应。

关联：田纳西州死刑犯派克行刑失败后恢复意识 律师10月6日发声明

Follow-Up: New Filing Details Pike Execution in Tennessee: Nearly a Dozen Needle Sticks as Warnings Mounted

A court filing submitted on October 22 by attorneys representing Tennessee death row inmates has disclosed new details of the night of September 30, when the state's attempt to execute Christa Pike by lethal injection failed. The filing says the execution team "tried and failed for over two hours to kill Christa Pike," and moved forward with administering lethal drugs despite indications that her intravenous lines were not functioning properly. (GSM, based on reporting by USA Today and The Associated Press)

The document, part of an ongoing lawsuit by death row prisoners challenging Tennessee's lethal injection procedures, seeks to add the allegations about Pike's failed execution to that case. It says personnel punctured Pike with nearly a dozen needles while trying to establish IV access in her arms, repeatedly believed they had secured a working line before discovering otherwise, and had trouble pushing saline through. According to her attorney Randy Spivey, who witnessed the execution, the prison warden attributed the difficulty pushing saline to the positioning of the line and tape being too tight. The Associated Press, citing a declaration by Spivey referenced in the filing, reported that team members warned veins may have "blown," with one saying something like, "it's either blood or blown, I need to know."

The filing also says the execution physician did not attempt to establish a central IV line, an alternative procedure permitted under Tennessee's execution protocol. As the execution unfolded, Pike complained that her arm felt like it was "about to bust" and that one spot was "really burning." She continued speaking with her spiritual adviser after the first dose was administered; her breathing then became labored, and prison officials closed the curtains separating the execution chamber from witnesses. After the second dose, Spivey noticed that Pike's right arm appeared purple below the elbow. The filing describes increasingly loud choking and rhythmic gasping sounds, and says witnesses remained behind closed curtains for nearly an hour as she continued struggling to breathe.

The filing also raises questions about the emergency response that night. A 911 call requesting an ambulance was made at 8:40 p.m., but first responders were delayed after prison officials initially failed to provide a verification code and dispatchers were incorrectly told the emergency request was not legitimate, according to the filing. Emergency personnel were not admitted to the prison until 9:15 p.m., and Pike was transported out at 9:26 p.m. She remained unresponsive in critical condition for nearly a week before regaining consciousness on October 6. Her attorneys later reported that she suffered pneumonia, a blood clot, difficulty walking and swallowing, cognitive problems and an inability to move her arms or hands; the full extent of her injuries has not been disclosed. The filing also raises new questions about the qualifications of the physician responsible for carrying out executions.

Pike, now 50, was sentenced to death for the 1995 torture and murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. On September 30, two rounds of the lethal injection drug pentobarbital failed to kill her; she had been scheduled to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than two centuries. Governor Bill Lee subsequently halted all executions in the state for the remainder of 2026 and ordered an independent review, and the commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Correction resigned. GSM previously reported Pike regaining consciousness; the new filing is the latest development in the case, and state officials have not publicly responded to its new allegations.

来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）

图片来源：田纳西州 Nashville 天际线（资料图，行刑所在的 Riverbend 最高安全监狱位于该市）。照片：Jacknstock，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons

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