Name: 【TED】大衛 R. 道: 從死囚身上學到的課 (Lessons from death row inmates | David R. Dow)
Uploaded: 2014-05-21T18:32:08.000Z
Duration: 18 min 17 s

and we were talking about what I was gonna talk about today.

We have an 11-year-old son; his name is Lincoln. He was sitting at the same table

我們有一個11歲大的兒子，他的名字叫林肯(Lincoln)

我當時想起我曾經的一個客戶“

He never knew his father very well, because his father left

他對父親沒有清晰的印象，因為他父親

在他母親懷著他的時候把兩人拋棄

And so, he was destined to be raised by a single mom,

所以，他在命中注定了要由他的單親媽媽養大

and when Will was five years old she try to kill him with butcher's knife.

當威廉還是五歲的時候，她就試圖以屠刀把他殺死

taken away by authorities and placed in a psychiatric hospital.

被執法當局帶走並關在精神病院

and so for the next several years Will lived with his older brother.

在往後的幾年間，小威廉一直跟他的哥哥同住

until he committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart.

直至他哥哥一槍打進自己的心房自殺

Will bounced around from one family member to another.

威廉像人球一樣被推到不同的親戚家中

until, by the time he was nine years old, he was essentially living on himself.

直至他九歲那年以後，他就自己獨自生活

That morning that I was sitting with Catia and Lincoln, i looked at my son.

那天早上，當我坐在卡地亞和林肯旁邊，我看著兒子林肯

and I realized that when my client, Will,

he'd been living by himself for two years.

about the morality of capital punishment. I certainly think that my client

有關死刑的道德問題。我當然不認為

shouldn't have been executed, but what I would like to do today instead

我的當時人應該受到死刑這制裁，但我今天想

where the most ardent death penalty supporters

即使是那些對於保留死刑的忠實支持者

或是那些最暄嚷的、支持廢除死刑的人

Before I do that, though, I want to spend a couple of minutes telling you how a death

在這之前，我希望用幾分鐘的時間去告訴你們

and then I want to tell you two lessons that I have learned over the last 20 years

from watching well more than a hundred cases unfold in this way.

You can think of a death penalty case as a story

The first chapter of every case is exactly the same,

where the murderer is convicted and sent to death row,

The second chapter consists of a complicated legal proceeding known as..

The third chapter is an even more complicated legal proceeding known as a

第三章是一個更為繁複的司法程序

is one where a variety of things can happen. The lawyers might file a clemency petition,

一系列的事情可以發生。律師們可能會可能會提出特赦申請

they might initiate even more complex litigation.

When I started representing death row inmates more than twenty years ago

二十多年前，當我開始作死囚代表律師的時候

people on death row did not have a right to a lawyer and even the second

被判死刑的人在第二或第四章的時候

In fact, it wasn't until the late 1980s that they acquired a

right to a lawyer during the third chapter

So what all of these death row inmates had to do

問題是，那些被判死刑的人的數目

than there were lawyers who had both the interest and the expertise to work on these cases.

遠遠多於那些既願意幫助死囚，又有具備專門知識的律師的數目

lawyers drifted to cases that were already in chapter 4.

律師們都會先處理已經到了第四章的死囚案件

that makes sense, of course. Those are the cases in the most urgent.

這不難埋解，因為這些案件都比較趕急

those are the guys who are closest to being executed.

Some of these lawyers were successful; they managed to get new trials for their clients.

有一些律師成功了；他們為當時人爭取新的審訊

Others of them managed to extend life for their clients sometimes by...

其他律師就爭取了延長他們當時人的生命

was that there was never a serious and sustained decline in the number of

那就是德州的行刑數目，以年計

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