Theft, for example, is punishable by chopping off the hand.

比如盗窃之罪会砍手极刑。

In 2016, Californians narrowly supported a ballot measure that called for speeding up the execution process.

2016年，加州微弱优势批准了加快极刑流程的法案。

Captain Kidd was captured by the English in Boston, Massachusetts and executed in the year 1701.

1701年，英国政府在马塞诸塞州的波士顿将凯特船长擒获，并极刑。

I see you think you can help yourself to our grain reserves? My father has ordered that looters be executed.

你在谷仓里面拿食物倒是很自在啊？我父亲下令偷窃是极刑的。

Texas carries out more executions than any other state-16 last year. And polls show most Texans support the punishment.

得克萨斯州去年执行的16起死刑比其任何一个州多。而且民意调查显示大多数德州人种极刑表示支持。

He was killed on the King’s orders.

【on】按国王的命令他被极刑。

It is my duty to pronounce judgment. Under the circumstances, I have no choice but to sentence you to death. No.

宣布判决是我的职责。在种情况下，我别无选择只能判你极刑。 不。

Evidence that capital punishment deters crime is pretty thin.

【thin，thinness】极刑能制止犯罪的论据不能令人信服。

What we see in the stay is this emerging awareness in the United States that we don’t want to execute people with serious mental illness.

我们之所延缓执行死刑是希望越来越多的美国人意识到，我们不想患有严重精神疾病的人极刑。

17 days from now they strap my brother to an electric chair... 17 send 50,000 bolts coursing through his body for a crime he didn't commit.

天后他送我哥哥上电椅因为一个莫须有的罪名将他极刑。

Home, that is, until Noo's father, Ken Saro-Wiwa, a businessman and activist from the oil-rich region of Ogoni, was arrested, imprisoned and then hanged in 1995 for his outspoken political views.

-才是真正意义上的家，直到Noo的父亲肯·萨洛-威瓦，个来自于奥格尼的商人和活动家，因为他的直言不讳的政治言论，而逮捕入狱，随后又于1995年被于极刑。

Many much-told stories reiterate this time-honored virtue of loving and respecting the elders, like the story of Tiying in the West Han Dynasty who risked her life in order to save her wronged father from corporal punishment.

许多为传颂的故事反复强调了种历史悠久的爱老敬老的美德，如西汉的缇萦舍身营救蒙冤的父亲免于极刑的故事。

Many often-told stories reiterate this time-honored virtue of loving and respecting the elders, such as the story of Tiying in the Western Han Dynasty who risked her life in order to save her wronged father from corporal punishment.

许多广为传颂的故事反复强调了种历史悠久的爱老敬老的美德，如西汉的缇萦舍身营救蒙冤父亲免于极刑的故事。

Many often-told stories reiterate this time-honored virtue of loving and respecting the elders, such as the story of Tiying in the Western Han Dynasty who risked her life in order to save her wronged father from corporal punishment.

作为一个很多美德闻名于世的国家，中国及中国人民自古来一直奉行孝道。许多广 为传颂的故事反复强调了种历史悠久的爱老敬老的美德，如西汉的缇萦舍身营救蒙冤父亲 免于极刑的故事。