If Charles I owned a real Leonardo before he was executed in 1649, this means our national love affair with the Renaissance polymath has been going on for almost 400 years.

若查理一世在1649年被处决前拥有一幅达·芬奇真迹，那意味着我们国家和达·芬奇这位文艺复兴时的博学家有过近400年的渊源。

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But meantime he came up to Hua and asked in low voice, "Hua, it is said that a prisoner has been executed today." He is the child in a family surnamed Xia.

花白胡子一面说，一面走到康大叔面前，低声下气的问道，“康大叔——听说今天结果的一个犯人，便是夏家的孩子，那是谁的孩子？”

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One day a defense lawyer stuns Courtney when he confronts him with evidence that the detective helped convict an innocent man who has since been executed.

一天，一位辩护律师让考特尼当他面对他证据，侦探帮助罪犯一个无辜的人被处决。

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While Sibat has not been executed, he remains in prison.

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Henry's second wife Ann Boleyn was watching a game of Real Tennis in Whitehall when she was arrested, and according to the official Web site of Hampton Court, legend has it he was playing when told she had been executed.

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The decline in the number who prefer the death penalty as the punishment for murder may be related to the growing number who believe that at least one person in the past five years has been executed for a crime that he or she did not commit.

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