On August 28th a woman in Tamil Nadu burned herself to death to protest against the imminent hangings .

八月二十八号，一名妇女在泰米尔纳德自焚身亡，以抗议即将执行的绞刑。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Public hangings and firing squads were common.

公开的绞刑和枪决在这里频频上演。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Witnesses of public hangings oftenreported victims "dancing" in pain at the end of the rope, strugglingviolently as they asphyxiated.

绞刑的旁观者经常提起死者在绳套上痛苦的“舞蹈”，在窒息的时候剧烈的挣扎。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

They are mainly small clerks and the like, and meet for the purpose of their art in a room hung with black hangings .

他们多为小职员之类的人，为了交流法术，他们常在一间挂着黑帘子的小屋里碰头。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

A retired police inspector, Mohan Raj, also wants the hangings called off.

退休的警务督察莫汉·拉吉也希望取消绞刑判决。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

A prominent politician, Vaiko, roars in his office that the hangings would be a "betrayal of the Tamils" , and would provoke popular fury.

一位重要的政治人物瓦伊克在自己的办公室里大吼说这几起绞刑将是对“泰米尔人的背叛”，并会引发大众的愤怒。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Despite opposing capital punishment, Chiba signed off on the executions of two convicted killers and attended their hangings last month.

一向反对死刑的日本法务大臣千叶景子（KeikoChiba）签署了两名杀人犯的死刑执行令，并于上月参加了他们的绞刑。

属类：英汉句库-cn.reuters.com-

A few allow hangings and firing squads, and nine let inmates choose electrocution in some cases, but these options are seldom used.

有一些州允许绞刑和枪毙，还有9个州在某些情况下会让囚犯选择电刑，但是这些方法很少用到。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-