The judge told him that he was lucky that the capital punishment had been abolished and that it was only due to this abolition that he would not be executed.
法官告诉他，他该庆幸极刑已被废除，并且由于该项惩罚的废除，他将免遭处决。
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Although courts still hand out the death penalty, the country has had a DE facto moratorium on capital punishment and has not executed anyone since December 1997.
The chance that innocent folk may be executed counts for more, with many, than the deterrent effect of capital punishment (itself questioned by academic studies).