I want my murderer to know that I am not a coward like he is, hiding behind human shields while condemning thousands of innocents to death.

因为我要让杀害我的凶手知道我不是像他一样的懦夫，躲藏在人群中却使数以千计无辜的人死于非命。

youdao

Anyone who kills a person is to be put to death as a murderer only on the testimony of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

无论谁故杀人，要凭几个见证人的口把那故杀人的杀了，只是不可凭一个见证的口叫人死。

youdao

Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

若用可以打死人的木器打死了人，他就是故杀人的。 故杀人的必被治死。

youdao

The first time he watched someone put to death a murderer, whose throat was slit by a member of his victim's family the sight made him sick.

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Hence, the Unabomber -- who killed three people and maimed and mutilated more than a score of others -- was treated with morbid curiosity by the press, as if he were a sideshow freak instead of a wicked, willful murderer who deserved to be put to death.

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But a murderer's chances of suffering arrest, trial and the death sentence are minimal.

ECONOMIST: Don��t bother to reform, just execute