Prosecuting would not be in the public interest, he held: Mr Rees was motivated by compassion; Mr Irwin, a former doctor, was an elderly man; and neither had profited from the death.

斯塔·梅尔称，起诉他们不符合公共权益：里斯先生是出于怜悯之心；而以前当过医生的埃尔文先生也已是老人了；加之，两人都没有从病人的死亡中获得任何好处。

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Nevertheless, it is a claim that can be sustained and if compassion animates those who urge the abolition of the death penalty.

然而，这种主张是可以成立的，假如怜悯激励了那些主张废除死刑的人们。

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Yates' lawyers appealed to the jury's sense of compassion Friday in trying to save Yates from the death penalty.

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