此次法院当真认为对精神发育迟滞的人施用死刑的确违反了第八修正案禁止残酷刑罚的规定。

And indeed the Court this time held that executions of persons with mental retardation did violate the Eighth Amendment's proscriptions against cruel and unusual punishment.

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刑罚的最终价值是正义、秩序和自由。

The ultimate penalty value is justice, order and freedom.

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联邦法官在决定刑罚时，往往过分看重美国的量刑指南，而这些指南对于动物打斗案件来说很不完善且早已过时。

Federal judges often rely heavily on the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines when they determine penalties, and in the case of animal fighting, those guidelines are outdated and extremely inadequate.

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These were real ways that people were executed-- stakes, massacres, and this sort of business.

这些都是真实发生过的刑罚方式,火刑,屠戮,等等之类的

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Some few people who had sinned terribly and earned the wrath of the gods would, indeed, be tortured in some special and typically Greek, interesting way. You remember Tantalus.

一些罪孽深重,触怒神灵的人,的确会受到一些希腊式的特殊刑罚,这很有意思,你们记得坦塔罗斯

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