Now nearly every state allows the option of life without parole (Texas introduced it only in 2005).

现在几乎每个州都允许判处不可假释的终生监禁来代替死刑（德州在2005年才推行这一制度）。

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In fact, some of the states that most avidly execute prisoners, such as Texas and Oklahoma, have higher crime rates than states that offer only life in prison without parole.

事实上，在热衷处死囚犯的那些州——比如德克·萨斯和俄克拉荷马——其犯罪率比那些只监禁犯人而不提供假释的州高多了。

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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.

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。

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The court is scheduled to hear cases involving gun rights, free speech and whether juvenile offenders should be sentenced to life in prison without parole in criminal cases that do not involve murder.

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Two cases in which juvenile offenders got life without parole didn't even involve murder.

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Antonio Nunez was 14 years old when he committed a crime that gave him life without parole.

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He was, however, convicted of killing Kathleen and sentenced to life without parole.

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