摘要
The article in Time on Jan 16th 2017,Death Penalty Slowly Fading Away Across the U.S mentions that in 2016,states handed down fewer death sentences than at anytime since capital punishment was reinstated in 1972.The number of executions hit a low not seen in a quarter-century.And for the first time in four decades,opinion polls showed that fewer than half of Americans supported capital punishment.As capital punishment falls out of favor in many states,the practice
