The British Business Secretary Vince Cable said he was blocking the export to the us of three drugs used to administer lethal injections.

英国商务大臣凯布尔(Vince Cable)表示，他已经禁止三种用于执行死刑注射的药物向美国出口。

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Other states with capital punishment prefer lethal injections. A few allow hangings and firing squads, and nine let inmates choose electrocution in some cases, but these options are seldom used.

其他存在死刑的州偏向于采用注射死刑，少部分的州则允许采用绞刑以及枪决，并有九个州允许囚犯在某些情况下选择电刑，但极少有人做这样的选择。

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They didn't actually decide whether these lethal injections are painful.

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Anti-death penalty activists say lethal injections - introduced in Florida and other states as a replacement for the electric chair and other methods of execution - are just as cruel and should not be considered a more humane substitute.

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