the guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up must spend their daily lives facing death.
工作于看守所的狱卒们每天和那些死刑犯一样过着面临死亡的生活。
purely from a financial standpoint, life without parole is cheaper for the taxpayers than death sentence. death row inmates can file for appeals for decades.
在美国,纯粹从纳税人金融角度来看,无假释的终身监禁比死刑便宜。死刑犯上诉文件可以几十年。
the green mile. stephen king. the eerie struggle of death row inmates as they fact the electric chair.
令人毛骨悚然的死亡侵入囚犯中间,令他们仿佛面对电椅一般。
texas has taken the decision to end the tradition of allowing death row inmates to choose their last meal.
德州已经决定要结束这项传统,不再允许死刑犯选择他们的最后一餐。
jay chapman, then the state's medical examiner, had proposed an intravenous drip to execute death row inmates earlier that year, arguing it would be a less painful method than existing practices.
时任州法医杰伊·查普曼于1977年初提议通过静脉滴注处决死刑犯,他表示,这种方式将比现行方式造成的痛苦更少。
japan has hanged three death row inmates in its first executions since july 2010.
2010年七月以来,日本首次将三名囚犯执行绞刑。