这一法律只需一点捕光捉影的证据,便可以判亵渎者死刑,因此美国及其它国家催促巴基斯坦废除或修改这一法律。
America and others have urged Pakistan to repeal or amend the law, which provides for the death penalty against blasphemers on very flimsy evidence.
全球在法律或执行上废除死刑的国家从2001年的108个上升到现在的139个。
The number of countries that had abolished the death penalty in law or practice had risen to 139 from 108 in 2001, it said.
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。
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.
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