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[律] death penalty，death sentence，capital punishment，nameless death，execution；

[例句] 这是间谍罪，应判死刑。 It was a crime of espionage and carried the death penalty.

[例句] 他有权维持法庭判决，批准死刑生效。 He can let the court's decision stand and permit the execution.

[律] penalty，punishment，criminal penalty，crucifixion ；

[例句] 他敦促恢复绞刑和鞭笞刑罚。 He urged the restoration of hanging and flogging.

[例句] 他以犯罪时精神不正常为由逃过了监禁刑罚. He escaped a prison sentence by reason of unsound mind at the time the crime was committed.

[律] probation，imprisonment with a suspension of sentence，reprieve，temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence，on probation ；

[例句] 这个小偷被处以两年缓刑。 The thief was put on probation for two years.

[例句] 约翰被判缓刑4个月。 John was given a four-month suspended sentence.

death by hanging，hanging，sentence to be hanged，sentence to the gallows，gallows ；

[例句] 那5个人将在周二早上7点被施以绞刑。 The five were expected to be hanged at 7 am on Tuesday.

[例句] 他敦促恢复绞刑和鞭笞刑罚。 He urged the restoration of hanging and flogging.

[律] reduce a penalty，commute [mitigate] a sentence，abatement from penalty，commute ；

[例句] 她因为表现良好获得减刑，可能会在一年内重获自由。 With remission for good behaviour, she could be freed in a year.

[例句] 有可能以情报换取减刑。 There is a possibility of being able to trade off information for a reduced sentence.

electrocution，torture by electric instrument ；

[例句] 他因17岁时犯下的谋杀罪而被处以电刑。 He was electrocuted for a murder committed when he was 17.

[例句] 一直有报道称犯人被施以电刑。 There are consistent reports of electrical torture being practised on inmates.

pass a sentence，sentence，condemn ；

[例句] 一想到要被判刑，他的头脑就会变得非常清醒。 A term in prison will concentrate his mind wonderfully.

[例句] 因有可减轻罪行的情节被告未被判刑。 There were extenuating circumstances and the defendant did not receive a prison sentence.

whipping，[法] flogging ；

[例句] 直到20世纪80年代，有些罪犯仍被处以笞刑。 Until the 1980s some criminals were still flogged with a rattan cane as a punishment.

[例句] 焊接缝洞笞刑唯一和蓝色? Welding sew a hole caning sole and blue one?

cruel torture，savage torture，brutal corporal punishment，excruciation，[电影]Tormento；

[法] criminally ；

[例句] 刑法上因果关系是事实因果关系与法律因果关系的统一. The causation in law is the unity of factual causation and law causation.

[例句] 自罗马法以来,就存在着民法与刑法上占有的区别. Differences between possession in Criminal Law andin Civil law have existed since the Roman law era.

penal，punitive，punitory ；

[例句] 那么, 你是在断言你可以逃脱刑罚的罗! So, you're betting that you can beat the rap.

[例句] 刑法是规定犯罪 、 刑事责任和刑罚的法律规范的总和. Criminal law is consist of crime, criminal liability and penalty.

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[例句] 几千名异教徒被烧死在火刑柱上。 Thousands of heretics were burned at the stake.

[例句] 圣女贞德在火刑柱上被 ( 活活 ) 烧死. Joan of Arc was burnt ( alive ) at the stake.

[法] extended sentence，infliction ；

[例句] 在关押6年后他还可能被加刑22年. He could get another 22 years in addition to the six he has already served.

[法] penal ；

[例句] 法律界更不会混淆刑事的罪行和民事的冤屈. Lawyers also distinguish between an offence which is criminal and a wrong which is civil.

[例句] 他们对刑事的审判权延伸到他们管区内发生的轻微罪行. Their criminal jurisdiction extends to misdemeanor offenses that occur within the limits of their geographic boundaries.

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[例句] 我们把多少的异教徒送到了刑架了 呢 ? How many heretics have we sent to the stake?

[例句] 地牢中有许多刑具, 包括拉肢刑架. The dungeon had numerous tools in it, including a rack.

criminology，[医] penology，criminalistics ；

[法] gauntlet ；

electrocute ；

lynching，[法] lynch ；

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