Botched executions are nothing new in US history. In the era when hangings were common, some condemned people were decapitated(被斩首的). Later, when the electric chair was in vogue(正在流行), every now and again, someone would catch fire during an electrocution. And nitrogen hypoxia, the US’s newest execution method, has already proven notoriously(出了名地，众所周知地) unreliable.
在美国历史上，处决搞砸并非新鲜事。在绞刑盛行的年代，有些死囚被绞得身首分离。后来电椅风靡一时，时不时有人在电刑过程中着火。而美国最新的处决方式——氮气窒息法——早已被证明出了名地不可靠。
But, of all of the ways we have tried to execute people, lethal injection(注射死刑，致命注射) has the worst track record(过往记录，成绩记录). More than 8% of all lethal injection executions have been botched. Most of them resulted when those charged with carrying them out(负责执行它们（处决）) could not find a usable vein(静脉).
但在我们尝试过的所有处决方式中，注射死刑的记录最差。超过8%的注射死刑执行都搞砸了。其中大多数是因为负责行刑的人找不到可用的静脉。
Last night, we entered uncharted territory(未知领域，前所未有的境地) when Christa Pike survived Tennessee’s effort to execute her with lethal doses of pentobarbital(戊巴比妥（一种巴比妥类药物）). It was the first time someone received a drug intended to kill them but did not die.(这是第一次有人接受了旨在致死的药物却没有死亡。)
昨晚，我们进入了未知领域：克里斯塔·派克在田纳西州用致命剂量戊巴比妥处决她的行动中幸存下来。这是第一次有人接受了旨在致死的药物却没有死亡。