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The Death Penalty: Tough love
死刑：嚴厲的愛
Juries acquit if sentences are harsh.
陪審團宣判是否裁決過于嚴厲。
Though no one has been executed in Britain for over 50 years, until 1998 someone convicted of high treason or “piracy with violence” could in theory be put to death.
盡管英國已超過50年沒有處死過一位犯人，但直到1998年有些犯有嚴重叛國罪的以及暴力海盜行為罪的罪犯理論上來說都可以被判處死刑。
The law is now clearly against capital punishment, but Britons are not.
如今法律明言禁止死刑可英國人卻不完全反對。
Fully one-third would like the death penalty to be brought back; the leader of the populist UK Independence Party has suggested a referendum on the matter.
整整三分之一的英國人支持恢復死刑；英國獨立黨民粹主義領袖建議就這個議題進行公投。
Yet research presented at this week's Royal Economic Society conference suggests that if you really want to be tough on criminals, killing off capital punishment makes sense.
然而公布在本周皇家經濟學會議上的研究表明如果你真的想讓罪犯獲得嚴厲懲罰，廢除死刑才是行之有效的方法。
Anna Bindler and Randi Hjalmarsson, both of the University of Gothenburg, examined over 200,000 cases from the Old Bailey criminal court in London from 1715 to 1900.
來自哥德堡大學的Anna Bindler 和Randi Hjalmarsson查閱了倫敦中央刑事法庭(Old Bailey)自1715至1900年的超過二十萬起案件。
During this period capital punishment was abolished for many offences, from counterfeiting money (in 1832) to robbery (in 1837) .
在這段時期，針對許多違法行為廢除了死刑，包括制造假幣(1832年)和搶劫(1837年)。
Making the necessary statistical controls, the authors looked at the change in the likelihood of conviction for offences that were no longer capital.
通過這些必要的統計管理，作者發現：由于一些違法行為將不再判處死刑，使得定罪率發生了變化。
譯文來源考研英語時事閱讀
