His original death sentence was commuted to life in prison.

他原本的死刑被减成终身监禁。

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The courts were empowered to impose the death sentence for certain crimes.

法院有权因某些罪行判处罪犯死刑。

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The penalty for these captured aid workers could range from expulsion to a jail term and death sentence.

这些被抓获的援助人员的刑罚范围包括从驱逐监禁到死刑不等。

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But Rwanda's constitution forbids the extradition of anyone to a country where they could face a death sentence.

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Con Markievicz was the only surviving leader of the Easter Rising, condemned to death, but then her sentence was transmuted.

马克维其是复活节起义唯一,幸存的领袖，被判了死刑，但后来判决又改变了。

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"It is the death sentence of a society to force children to kill in wars.

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She is the only witness in her defense as the Arizona jury decides whether to sentence her to death for stabbing and shooting her onetime boyfriend.

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Under Colorado law, as in other states that authorize capital punishment, that jury will first be "death qualified, " that is, purged of citizens whose faith or moral precepts would not permit them to sentence Holmes to death.

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The judge dismissed four potential jurors because of their opposition to capital punishment. (This judge later served on South Carolina's Supreme Court, and landed in some hot water by professing to find racist jokes inoffensive and funny.) It took the jury less than three hours to convict Mr Elmore, and an additional 50 minutes to sentence him to death.

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