By 1930 when Ransome wrote Swallows and Amazons it was firmly enough established as the favourite pirate method of execution.

1930年，当兰瑟姆在创作《燕子和鹦鹉》的时候，这种海盗们最喜欢的处决方式就已经相当稳固了。

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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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Frequency of calls and duration of method execution are two performance Numbers that should be captured.

调用的频率和方法执行的持续时间是两个应该被获取的性能数字。

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Mr. Horvath: It's not really about the category but the method of execution.

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An attempt to challenge this method of execution failed in the Supreme Court, which stated in its 1983 judgement that hanging did not involve torture, barbarity, humiliation or degradation.

BBC: India and the death penalty

Ms. DAHLIA LITHWICK (Legal Analyst, Slate): That's right, Alex, and 37 of the 38 states that currently have the death penalty, this is their preferred method of execution, but prisoners are complaining that it doesn't work, that it's causing a tremendous amount of pain, more so than was present in death sentences using the electric chair or gas.

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