汤普森先生被监禁死囚区14年，在即将行刑的几个星期前状告地区检察官。
Mr Thompson, who had spent 14 years on death row and was within weeks of being executed, sued the district-attorney.
同时，实际执行的死刑数量已经下降了将近三分之二，而死囚区的同狱犯人人数也已经开始减少。
At the same time the number of death sentences actually imposed has fallen by nearly two-thirds, while the number of inmates on death row has also begun to decline.
大卫·道救不了贵格，主要是因为该案的前律师处理得很糟。对死囚区的犯人来说，这种困境司空见惯。
Mr Dow is unable to save Quaker, largely because the case was badly mishandled by his initial lawyer, a common predicament for death-row inmates.
现在，肯塔基将可能作为第十一个州加入到这一行列中来，因为该州被其关押在死囚区的两个死囚拉尔夫•贝兹与托马斯•保林以被告身份诉至法院，而法院也已经决定审理该案。
Now an eleventh, Kentucky, can be added, since it is the defendant in the appeal by two prisoners on Kentucky's death row, Ralph Baze and Thomas Bowling, which the court has agreed to hear.
在过去的八年之中，年度总数都下降了接近于一半的比例，从1999年最高的98例下降到去年的53例以及今年到现在为止的42例。同时，实际执行的死刑数量已经下降了将近三分之二，而死囚区的同狱犯人人数也已经开始减少。
Over the past eight years the annual total has fallen by almost half, from a peak of 98 in 1999 to 53 last year and 42 so far this year.
在过去的八年之中，年度总数都下降了接近于一半的比例，从1999年最高的98例下降到去年的53例以及今年到现在为止的42例。同时，实际执行的死刑数量已经下降了将近三分之二，而死囚区的同狱犯人人数也已经开始减少。
Over the past eight years the annual total has fallen by almost half, from a peak of 98 in 1999 to 53 last year and 42 so far this year.
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