Capital punishment was regarded as inhuman and immoral.
死刑过去被认为是非人道且不道德的。
Capital punishment is allowable only under exceptional circumstances.
只有在特殊情况下才允许判死刑。
There have been demands from some politicians to reintroduce capital punishment.
已经有一些政治家要求重新启用死刑。
The alternative to capital punishment is longer sentences but they would certainly cost the taxpayers much money.
死刑的替代选择是较长的刑期，但这肯定会耗费纳税人很多钱。
Of course one alternative to this is to restore capital punishment, but I'm not sure I would be for that.
当然，另一种选择是恢复死刑，但我不确定我是否会支持这样做。
He argued in favour of capital punishment.
他提出理由赞成严惩。
There is a contrast as well in the use of trial and punishment, including capital punishment.
在使用审判和处罚方面，包括死刑，印中两国也可以对比。
The arguments for and against capital punishment have evolved.
支持和反对死刑的理由也在变化。
But if the populations of the 15 countries that carry out the most executions are taken into account, Iran and Saudi Arabia emerge as more zealous employers of capital punishment than China.
但是如果将执行死刑最多的15个国家的各总人口数也考虑进去的话，伊朗和沙特阿拉伯则是比中国更热衷于施行死刑的国家。
There is undoubtedly an element of truth in assertions that capital punishment is necessary, but proponents seem to ignore the fact that the practice has failed to deter heinous crimes.
毫无疑问，主张极刑的必要性有正确的成分，但是，支持者似乎忽略了这种做法不能阻止令人发指的罪行这一事实。
The governor of Illinois signed a bill ending the death penalty after an 11-year moratorium, making his state the 16th without capital punishment.
伊利诺斯州州长签署了一项法令，在11年得中断之后，取消了死刑，使该州成为美国第16个废除死刑的州。
Injections were introduced in 1978 as a supposedly more humane alternative to other forms of capital punishment-hanging, firing squad, electrocution and the gas chamber.
1978年，注射式死刑作为一种相较于绞杀、射杀、电刑以及毒气室等执行死刑的手段更为人道的选择方案而引入美国。
And you consider the crimes that are punished by capital punishment, and the crimes that are punished by monetary compensation, and he feels this is quite revealing.
想想那些被处以死刑的罪行和，要求金钱赔偿的罪行，他觉得这些就很明显地显示了这一不同点。
European Union regulations already prohibit the export of electric chairs and automatic-injection systems, which have no use except in capital punishment.
欧盟的规章已经阻止了电椅和自动注射系统的出口，这些东西只能被用于执行死刑。
Now questions over America's most popular method of execution are prompting some campaigners to ask, hopefully, whether this could be the beginning of the end of capital punishment.
如今对美国最普遍的死刑执行方式的质疑促使一些运动人士满怀希望地问，这是否是死刑终止的预兆呢？
A crude way of trying to settle which camp is correct is to compare murder rates in jurisdictions with and without capital punishment.
解决两个阵营争议的一个粗略方法是比较有死刑和没有死刑辖区的谋杀案发率。
Some 95% of Asians live in jurisdictions that carry out capital punishment, and Asia accounts for over three-quarters of executions worldwide.
约95%具有司法权的亚洲国家执行死刑，并且，亚洲死刑执行量占世界的四分之三。
Opponents of capital punishment tend to respond by saying that juries, being human, err.
反对死刑的人常回应说，陪审团是人，就一定会犯错误。
The chance that innocent folk may be executed counts for more, with many, than the deterrent effect of capital punishment (itself questioned by academic studies).
许多人对无辜者被错杀的关切也超过了对死刑威慑作用（研究结果对此提出置疑）的认可。
Only 14 of the 50 states have banned capital punishment.
在50所州里面只有14个州废除了死刑制度。
Analysts say another factor influencing public opinion is the growing opposition to capital punishment among U.S. Catholics.
分析人士说，另外一个左右美国公众舆论的因素是，美国天主教徒越来越反对死刑。
Other states with capital punishment prefer lethal injections. A few allow hangings and firing squads, and nine let inmates choose electrocution in some cases, but these options are seldom used.
其他存在死刑的州偏向于采用注射死刑，少部分的州则允许采用绞刑以及枪决，并有九个州允许囚犯在某些情况下选择电刑，但极少有人做这样的选择。
By talking as if capital punishment is murdering human beings are interchangeable here, you're actually begging the question aren't you?
如果说死刑和，和谋杀是两个可以互换的概念，你们实际上是在求问题，不是吗？
The advocacy work I have undertaken over the past several years has not included an overwhelming amount of commitment to opposing capital punishment.
在过去几年内我接手的倡导工作，不包括大规模的反对死刑判决的声明。
Other states with capital punishment prefer lethal injections.
其它州更喜欢注射死刑。
The murder rate in the United States as a whole, moreover, is far higher than in western Europe, where capital punishment is a thing of the past.
此外，美国整体的谋杀率远比西欧高得多，而在西欧死刑早已是过去的事了。
On the face of things, capital punishment ought to be the ultimate deterrent. But it does not seem to be.
表面看来，死刑应是终极的威慑，但实际似乎不是。
On the face of things, capital punishment ought to be the ultimate deterrent. But it does not seem to be.
表面看来，死刑应是终极的威慑，但实际似乎不是。
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