Christa Pike had asked to be hanged. In the weeks before her botched(搞砸的，失败的) execution by lethal(致命的) injection on 30 September, in which she survived two lethal doses of barbiturate(巴比妥类药物) pentobarbital(戊巴比妥) and had to be hospitalized, Pike and her legal team had challenged Tennessee’s execution protocol(死刑执行规程).
克里斯塔·派克曾请求被处以绞刑。9月30日，她以注射方式被执行死刑，却因行刑失败而幸存——她承受了两剂致命剂量的巴比妥类药物戊巴比妥，随后被送进医院。在此前数周里，派克和她的法律团队一直在质疑田纳西州的死刑执行规程。
The state’s lethal injection regimen(方案，疗程) had failed before. In May, Tony Carruthers was also sent to Tennessee’s death chamber(死刑室), only to leave alive(结果却活着离开) after prison officials struggled to find a vein(血管，静脉).
该州的注射死刑方案此前就曾失败过。今年5月，托尼·卡鲁瑟斯也被送进田纳西州的死刑室，结果却活着出来了——狱方人员怎么也找不到他的血管。
In Pike’s case, her lawyers argued, the lethal injection protocol was likely to fail again.
在派克的案件中，她的律师认为，注射死刑规程很可能再次失败。