单词capital punishment
n.: 死刑；极刑
网络: 处死的刑罚；最大刑罚；绞刑
死刑；极刑:
punishment by death
死刑
America, along with Japan, India, South Korea and Taiwan, is one of just a handful of democracies that retain capital punishment.
美国与日本、印度、南朝鲜以及台湾一样，是众多保留死刑制度的民主国家和地区之一。
Huang was quoted as saying China was not prepared to do away with capital punishment despite the problems in its lower courts.
用黄的话来说，尽管低级法院存在一些问题，中国还没有准备好废除死刑。
By talking as if capital punishment is murdering human beings are interchangeable here, you"re actually begging the question aren"t you?
如果说死刑和，和谋杀是两个可以互换的概念，你们实际上是在求问题，不是吗？
On the face of things, capital punishment ought to be the ultimate deterrent. But it does not seem to be.
表面看来，死刑应是终极的威慑，但实际似乎不是。
Despite the decision about capital punishment taken in Parliament, the groundswell of opinion seems to be in favour of reintroducing it.
尽管议会通过了有关死刑的决定，但大多数的意见似乎是赞成恢复死刑。
He made such a capital blunder that he got a capital punishment.
他犯了这么大的错误，以至于他要受到资金上的罚款。
There was a long debate in Parliament on the question of capital punishment.
在死刑的问题上，国会有一个长时间的辩论。
It has historically been used as a severe form of capital punishment.
历史上，它被认为是死刑中重刑。
Execution of a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offense is called capital punishment or death penalty.
通过法律程序执行对犯人的惩罚的行为通常称为死刑。
A crude way of trying to settle which camp is correct is to compare murder rates in jurisdictions with and without capital punishment.
解决两个阵营争议的一个粗略方法是比较有死刑和没有死刑辖区的谋杀案发率。