The judge decides whether the circumstances of the crime merit punishment at the high end of the range, at the low end, or somewhere in the middle.

法庭判断犯罪环境是符合惩罚的最高限度，最低限度还是中间某个程度。

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Now questions over America's most popular method of execution are prompting some campaigners to ask, hopefully, whether this could be the beginning of the end of capital punishment.

如今对美国最普遍的死刑执行方式的质疑促使一些运动人士满怀希望地问，这是否是死刑终止的预兆呢？

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Controversies over the end of punishment, and the schools arising from them are numerous and complicated.

围绕刑罚目的的争论可谓众说纷纭，由此又产生了许多不同的学派。

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Traditionally, in the United States, ... when somebody dies, that's the end of their punishment.

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The end of capital punishment would spare eight men who are on death row in New Jersey.

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He wanted an end to the barbarity of capital punishment, for example.

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