Deck 27: Capital Punishment

Question 1

Le meurtre

Answer 1

Murder

Question 2

Être coupable de meurtre

Answer 2

To be guilty of murder

Question 3

Un meurtrier

Answer 3

A murderer

Question 4

Le viol

Answer 4

Rape

Question 5

Un violeur

Answer 5

A rapist

Question 6

Un délinquant sexual

Answer 6

A sex offender

Question 7

Un récidiviste

Answer 7

A repeat offender, a recidivist

Question 8

La culpabilité

Answer 8

Guilt

Question 9

Appliquer la loi du talion

Answer 9

To demand an eye for an eye

Question 10

Déclarer qqn coupable, condamné qqn

Answer 10

To convict sb, to find sb guilty

Question 11

Une condamnation

Answer 11

A conviction

Question 12

Une condamnation à tort

Answer 12

A wrongful conviction

Question 13

Condamner qqn à mort

Answer 13

To sentence sb to death

Question 14

Condamner qqn à 25 and de prison

Answer 14

To sentence sb to 25 years imprisonment

Question 15

Un coupable

Answer 15

A culprit

Question 16

Dissuader qqn de faire qqch

Answer 16

To deter sb from doing sth

Question 17

Avoir un effet dissuasif

Answer 17

To act as a deterrent

Question 18

Une condamnation à mort

Answer 18

A death sentence

Question 19

Une condamnation à perpétuité

Answer 19

A life sentence

Question 20

Perpétuité sans possibilité de remise de peine

Answer 20

Life without parole

Question 21

Mettre qqn en prison

Answer 21

To jail, imprison sb

Question 22

Un détenu, un prisonnier

Answer 22

An inmate, a detainee, a prisoner

Question 23

Être dans le couloir de la mort

Answer 23

To be on death row

Question 24

Une cellule

Answer 24

A cell

Question 25

Un avocat

Answer 25

A lawyer

Question 26

Un appel

Answer 26

An appeal

Question 27

Faire appel d’une de décision

Answer 27

To appeal against a decision

Question 28

Casser une décision (de justice)

Answer 28

To quash, to overturn a decision

Question 29

Commuer une condamnation à mort en réclusion à perpétuité

Answer 29

To commute a death sentence to life

Question 30

Surseoir à l’exécution d’un condamné

Answer 30

To grant a convict a stay of execution, a reprieve

Question 31

Grâcier un criminel

Answer 31

To pardon a criminal

Question 32

Exécuter un condamné

Answer 32

To execute a convict

Question 33

Mettre qqn à mort

Answer 33

To put sb to death

Question 34

Un bourreau

Answer 34

An executioner

Question 35

Une piqûre mortelle

Answer 35

A lethal injection

Question 36

Faire une piqûre mortelle à qqn

Answer 36

To inject sb with a lethal substance

Question 37

Pendre qqn

Answer 37

To hang sb

Question 38

La guillotine

Answer 38

The guillotine

Question 39

Guillotiner qqn

Answer 39

To guillotine sb

Question 40

Électrocuter qqn

Answer 40

To electrocute sb

Question 41

La chaise électrique

Answer 41

The electric chair

Question 42

Lapider qqn, tuer qqn à coup de pierre

Answer 42

To stone sb to death

Question 43

Abolir

Answer 43

To abolish, to do away with

Question 44

Rétablir la peine de mort

Answer 44

To reinstate, to reintroduce, to restore the death penalty

Question 45

Appliquer la peine de mort

Answer 45

To apply, to enforce the death penalty

Question 46

Une erreur judiciaire

Answer 46

A miscarriage of justice

Question 47

Les tests ADN

Answer 47

DNA analysis, DNA testing

Question 48

Innocenter qqn

Answer 48

To prove sb innocent, to exonerate sb

Question 49

Être innocenté grâce à l’ADN

Answer 49

to be cleared by DNA

Question 50

Un problème controversé

Answer 50

A controversial, contentious issue

Question 51

Un problème sensible, qui suscite de vives réactions

Answer 51

A hot-button issue

Question 52

Partisans de la peine de mort

Answer 52

Advocates, supporters, proponents of the death penalty

Question 53

Opposant à, adversaires de la peine de mort

Answer 53

Critics, opponents of the death penalty

Question 54

Être contre la peine de mort

Answer 54

To oppose the death penalty, to be opposed to the death penalty

Question 55

Un abolitionniste, un partisan de l’abolition de la peine de mort

Answer 55

An abolitionist