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死刑：以杀人作为严重罪行的惩罚方式。
capital punishment //
不可数名词 Capital punishment is punishment which involves the legal killing of a person who has committed a serious crime such as murder. 死刑
There have been demands from some politicians to reintroduce capital punishment.
已经有一些政治家要求重新启用死刑。
putting a condemned person to death
同义词： execution / executing / death penalty
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Death penalty, also named life penalty or capital punishment, is a punishment which deprives of the criminal’s life, done by state.
死刑(death penalty),又称生命刑或极刑,是国家为剥夺犯罪分子的生命所实施的一种刑罚。
参考来源论死刑的正当性（研究生论文）
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Capital punishment is a highly emotive issue.
死刑是极易引起激烈争论的问题。
Capital punishment was regarded as inhuman and immoral.
死刑过去被认为是非人道且不道德的。
They seriously believe that capital punishment is a deterrent.
他们坚信死刑是一种威慑手段。
Lois Fischbeck of Maryland came to urge the court to ban capital punishment, even though the justices are not scheduled to take on a particular case this term that would deal with the issue directly.
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And you consider the crimes that are punished by capital punishment, and the crimes that are punished by monetary compensation, and he feels this is quite revealing.
想想那些被处以死刑的罪行和，要求金钱赔偿的罪行,他觉得这些就很明显地显示了这一不同点。
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This could be obvious things like height or age but it also could be things like attitudes toward capital punishment, preference for the Red Sox over the Yankees. Right?
在身高和年龄方面比较突出,在其他方面,像对待死刑的态度，稀饭红袜队？
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Komisarjevsky received his death sentence three months before the state repealed capital punishment in future cases.
CNN: Executions, death sentences remain steady over past year
California voters in November by a 53% to 47% margin approved keeping capital punishment.
CNN: Executions, death sentences remain steady over past year
Such a case has become a kind of grisly Holy Grail among opponents of capital punishment.