福克斯新闻 美国阿肯色州面临死刑判决难题

Less than two weeks from now Arkansas was planning two executions, its first in a decade.

Instead, all eight of the state's scheduled executions are on hold.

A county circuit court judge issuing a stay as inmates¹ challenge a secrecy² law that shields the manufacturers and sellers of Arkansas' execution drugs from being made public.

The inmates' lawyers arguing withholding³ information raises the risk of unconstitutional pain and suffering.

They also cite neighboring Oklahoma, where executions had already been halted because of the wrong drug being delivered to corrections officials.

An autopsy⁴ later revealing the wrong drug was used for an execution in January.

距阿肯色州现在正在计划当中10年来首次判决的两场死刑还有不到2周时间。

而8个州则正在考虑是否执行。

随着囚犯保密法律反对阿肯色州制造商及销售商公开行刑药物县巡回法庭法官宣布死刑延期。

囚犯们的律师认为隐瞒信息是违宪而且加大了承受痛苦及受到折磨的风险。

他们还引用邻近俄克拉何马州由于官员送错药物造成死刑已被停止的做法。

之后的尸检显示在1月执行死刑期间使用的是错误药物。

1 inmates   

n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 secrecy   

n.秘密，保密，隐蔽

参考例句：

• All the researchers on the project are sworn to secrecy.该项目的所有研究人员都按要求起誓保守秘密。
• Complete secrecy surrounded the meeting.会议在绝对机密的环境中进行。

3 withholding   

扣缴税款

参考例句：

• She was accused of withholding information from the police. 她被指控对警方知情不报。
• The judge suspected the witness was withholding information. 法官怀疑见证人在隐瞒情况。

4 autopsy   

n.尸体解剖；尸检

参考例句：

• They're carrying out an autopsy on the victim.他们正在给受害者验尸。
• A hemorrhagic gut was the predominant lesion at autopsy.尸检的主要发现是肠出血。