capital sentence

基本解释

For the first time last year, a Gallup poll reported that a slim plurality of Americans found this option preferable to a capital sentence (48-47%).
去年盖洛普民意测验报告说，相对死刑支持者，支持不可假释终生监禁的人第一次占到了微弱多数。
and, eventually, that led to a capital sentence. The concealed blood test led to another deathbed confession—this time from one of the prosecutors involved.
随后，血液证据曝光又引出了另一临终忏悔——而这次忏悔的人则是该案检察官中的一名。
That conviction contributed to the murder charge, because in the light of it, Mr Thompson was advised not to testify in court; and, eventually, that led to a capital sentence.
这项定罪促成了后来的谋杀指控，因为在该罪名下，汤普森先生未能出庭作证，最终被判死刑。

Germany allowed the extradition after receiving assurances the pair would be tried in a civilian court and not face a capital sentence if found guilty.
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But they were soon overshadowed by thousands of protesters who flooded a major intersection in the capital, Dhaka, upset by what they said was a lenient sentence of life in prison, which actually means just 14 years in Bangladesh.
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死刑
The article includes six chapters. The first chapter, after comprehensively evaluating the debates, deals with their influences on our legislation of capital sentence.
本文第一章以死刑——仍需长期关注的问题为基点,在综合评价死刑存废之争的基础上,分析了死刑存废之争对我国死刑立法现状的影响。