死刑的支持者辩称，死刑可以阻止罪犯携带枪支。
Supporters of the death penalty argue that it would deter criminals from carrying guns.
在一些国家，总统可以给判死刑的人特权让他们免除死刑。
In some countries, the president can privilege somebody from death penalty.
许多人认为，死刑是对谋杀的有效威慑，而另一些人则认为，没有令人信服的证据表明死刑减少了谋杀。
Many argue that it is an effective deterrent to murder, while others maintain there is no convincing evidence that the death penalty reduces murders.
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。
The governor of Illinois signed a bill ending the death penalty after an 11-year moratorium, making his state the 16th without capital punishment.
奥巴马认为尽管死刑不能阻止犯罪，他仍支持死刑，他说，这是正当且合理的，因为这是对(社会)愤慨的最充分体现。
Barack Obama supports the death penalty even though he believes it "does little to deter crime". It is justified, he says, because it expresses "the full measure of [a community's] outrage".
奥巴马认为尽管死刑不能阻止犯罪，他仍支持死刑，他说，这是正当且合理的，因为这是对(社会)愤慨的最充分体现。
Barack Obama supports the death penalty even though he believes it "does little to deter crime".it is justified, he says, because it expresses "the full measure of [a community's] outrage".
三十四个州有死刑，但是只有去年只有12个执行过死刑。
Thirty-four states have the death penalty, but only 12 carried out executions last year.
日本两名谋杀犯被执行死刑，这是今年来日本首例死刑判决。
Two convicted murderers were executed in Japan, in the first use of the death penalty in the country in a year.
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。
Some 95% of Asians live in jurisdictions that carry out capital punishment, and Asia accounts for over three-quarters of executions worldwide.
2005年，有死刑的州比没有死刑的州人均多46%的谋杀案。1990这一差距更大。
In 2005 there were 46% more murders per head in states with the death penalty than in those without it, and that gap has widened since 1990.
虽然法院还未正式执行死刑，但该国已进行了事实上的暂停执行死刑，自1997年12月以来并没有处决任何人。
Although courts still hand out the death penalty, the country has had a DE facto moratorium on capital punishment and has not executed anyone since December 1997.
这两项研究的结果，一个认为死刑能够威吓犯罪，另一个则表示死刑不能威吓犯罪。
One study showed that the death penalty was an effective deterrent; the other showed that it was not.
在印度，被判死刑者都是执行绞刑而死，但是真正实行绞刑的很少。大多数的死刑到后来，都会变成终身监禁。
In India the death penalty is carried out by hanging, but it is rarely used and most death sentences are commuted to life imprisonment.
况且还存在将平白无辜的人误判死刑的风险，迄今为止，已有超过130名被判处死刑的人被证明无罪。
There is also the danger that innocent people may be put to death. So far, more than 130 people who had been sentenced to death have been exonerated.
理论上来说，亵渎神明可以通过死刑来处置——总是有死刑案件产生，但却从未执行。
In theory, blasphemy is punishable by death-a penalty that has been handed down but never carried out.
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。
A crude way of trying to settle which camp is correct is to compare murder rates in jurisdictions with and without capital punishment.
废除死刑提案的支持者们认为死刑花费高昂却收效甚微——很少有证据表明死刑起到了什么显著作用。
Proponents of the abolition bills describe the death penalty as an expensive programme with few benefits. There is little evidence that the death penalty deters.
由此可见，有相当大一部分美国人相信死刑制度会让无辜的人失去生命，但是他们却想要坚持甚至扩大死刑的覆盖范围。
So there seems to be a significant number of Americans who believe the death-penalty system costs innocent people their lives, but who nevertheless want to keep it around and even expand it.
纳斯林也同样接手涉及青少年死刑的案件——伊朗是世界上为数不多的还保留儿童死刑判罚的国家之一。
Nasrin has also taken on cases involving juvenile executions - Iran is one of the few countries in the world that still puts children to death.
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。
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.
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。
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.
美国新墨西哥州废除死刑，因为DNA证据表明曾有无辜的人被执行了死刑。
In the United States New Mexico abolished the death penalty after DNA evidence proved that innocent people had been executed in the past.
即使你是等待被处决的死刑犯——超过99%的谋杀犯都不会被判死刑——每年被处死的概率大约只有2%。
Even if you are on death row-a fate over 99% of murderers escape-the chance of being put to death in any given year is only about 2%.
对于应当判处死刑的犯罪分子，如果不是必须立即执行的，可以判处死刑同时宣告缓期二年执行。
If the immediate execution of a criminal punishable by death is not deemed necessary, a two-year suspension of execution may be pronounced simultaneously with the imposition of the death sentence.
不过他说，重要的不是年年都有波动的死刑数量，而是执行死刑的国家。
But he says the important point is not the number of executions, which fluctuates from year to year, but the number of countries that carry out executions.
曼森一开始被判了死刑，但是由于加州法院已经废除了死刑，所以改判成无期徒刑。
Manson was initially sentenced to die for his crimes but the sentence was commuted to life in prison after California courts abolished the death penalty.
曼森一开始被判了死刑，但是由于加州法院已经废除了死刑，所以改判成无期徒刑。
Manson was initially sentenced to die for his crimes but the sentence was commuted to life in prison after California courts abolished the death penalty.
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