The judge told him that he was lucky that the capital punishment had been abolished and that it was only due to this abolition that he would not be executed.

法官告诉他，他该庆幸极刑已被废除，并且由于该项惩罚的废除，他将免遭处决。

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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.

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。

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The chance that innocent folk may be executed counts for more, with many, than the deterrent effect of capital punishment (itself questioned by academic studies).

许多人对无辜者被错杀的关切也超过了对死刑威慑作用（研究结果对此提出置疑）的认可。

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Echegaray would have been the first to be executed since Congress instituted capital punishment in December 1993.

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In a 1986 case it said that prisoners so insane that they could not understand the punishment they were about to suffer or why they were being punished could not be executed.

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