这些犯人已由行刑队枪决。
关于他的一个当事人亨利·贵格,他写道:“我们尽量让行刑日期避开我们的休假日。”
"We planned the execution around our vacations," he writes of one of his clients, Henry Quaker.
至少在目前,在另一方面废除死刑者运气更好。他们争辩说毒剂注射这种最广泛使用的行刑方式是极度痛苦的。
Abolitionists have had more luck, at least temporarily, by arguing that lethal injection, the form of execution most widely adopted, is excruciatingly painful.
行刑数从1999年的近代以来峰值降低了46%,降到去年的53例(见图1)。
The number of executions has fallen by 46% from its modern peak in 1999, to 53 last year (see chart 1).
行刑室中的电话突然响起,拨号面板上的红灯不断闪亮。
A telephone inside the execution chamber rings and the red light on faceplate blinks furiously.
面对行刑之际,波伊提乌力图寻找对于他不幸命运的安慰之物。
Boethius, faced with execution, seeks to find solace for his misfortunes.
行刑者没有接道命令。
但如果行刑能通过震慑潜在谋杀者来挽救生命呢?
But what if executions save lives by deterring potential murderers?
他在监狱里等着行刑,很绝望。
And he is in prison waiting to be executed. So, he's gonna be killed; he's hopeless.
“如果新泽西再出现一次行刑,我就把尸体吃了。”科罗拉多大学的MichaelRadelet说。
"If New Jersey holds another execution, I'll eat the body," vows Michael Radelet of the University of Colorado.
首先罪犯被绑在一个木框上,由一匹马后面拖着他到行刑地。 然后,罪犯上绞架,勒到快断气为止。
First the convict is dragged on a hurdle (a wooden frame) to the place of execution.
行刑者开出条件,要他『拒绝承认你的信仰及摧毁圣母像』。
The executioner had one condition, ‘Just renounce your faith and destroy this statue of the Blessed Mother.’
Brewer一案使我们清楚的意识到死刑是一件令人作呕的事,行刑过程中的不近人情会降低行刑者的人格。
As the Brewer case makes clear, the death penalty is a sickening business. The grim theatrics of an execution debase the executioner.
狱长转身准备离开,Lincoln向他询问,在行刑时观刑室里的都是些什么人。
As the Warden turns to leave, Lincoln asks Pope who was in the viewing room for his execution.
相对较重的俄国手枪,德国的华特7.65mm手枪的反冲比较小,会使刽子手们行刑起来更容易,对于需要杀死这么多人的他们来说,这的确是一件必需品。
The relatively small recoil, compared to that of heavier Russian pistols, made the task far easier on the executioner's wrist, an essential requisite for a killer with so many men to despatch.
而且如果注射死刑是不合法的,大多数美国人可能更倾向于不可假释的无期徒刑,而不是回到电椅、枪决行刑队或毒气室。
And if injections are outlawed, then a majority of Americans might prefer life imprisonment without parole rather than returning to the electric chair, firing squad or gas chamber.
哦,阿曼达,他们什么时候才会让你独自己一人坐上那行刑的浸水刑椅?
Oh, Amanda. When will they allow you to have a ducking stool all of your very own?
该邦议会也一致投票反对行刑。
印度尼西亚由行刑队执行死刑。执行时间通常在深夜,也不会事先发布公告。
Indonesia carries out executions by firing squad, usually late at night and without giving prior notice to the public.
该委员会还报告说如果企图越狱会被行刑队射杀或者被绞死。
The commission also reported that attempts to escape led to execution by firing squad or hanging.
尽管拉里·贾尼先生回应誓言遵守法律程序,其他司法部的人员认为那些面临死刑的人很快就会被行刑。
Although Mr Larijani has responded by vowing to respect legal procedure, others in the judiciary say that those facing death sentences will meet their fate soon.
但行刑期间她并没有入住监狱,而是被送去了一个狱警的家里工作。
Instead of living in the main prison, she was sent to work at one of the guard's home.
自2000年以来,50州中的12个州都暂缓了死刑行刑。
Since 2000, 12 out of 50 states have suspended the death penalty.
死刑执行者表示车辆和注射是行刑队的文明替代方式,可以更快速,更临床,更安全地结束死刑犯的生命。
Makers of the death vans say the vehicles and injections are a civilized alternative to the firing squad, ending the life of the condemned more quickly, clinically and safely.
实际上,美国行刑系统里众多的待刑之人,他们将要在行刑室里接受致命注射,毛骨悚然地下黄泉,而他们正是靠着信奉上帝来熬过此种精神折磨。
Indeed, many of those within America's massive death row system survive the mental torture of years facing a gruesome death in a lethal injection chamber by turning to God.
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.
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.
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