杜安·“基菲·D”·戴维斯（Duane “Keffe D” Davis）——唯一曾因1996年图帕克·夏库尔谋杀案被起诉的人——在八月被定罪后，周二在拉斯维加斯法院被判处40年有期徒刑至终身监禁。
Duane "Keffe D" Davis -- the only person ever charged with Tupac Shakur's 1996 murder -- was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison Tuesday in a Las Vegas court after his conviction in August.
夏库尔家族成员在法庭上发表了情感冲击性陈述，阐述了这位说唱偶像之死所造成的代际损失，以及他们个人的人类悲痛。
Members of the Shakur family gave emotional impact statements in court, articulating not only the generational loss the rap icon's death caused but their personal, human grief.
“我相信，当你夺走一条生命时，你就该承受最高刑罚的每一分钟，每一分钟，坐下来思考你对这个世界造成了什么影响，而不仅仅是对我造成了什么影响，”塞基瓦·夏库尔（Sekyiwa Shakur）说。
"I do believe that when you take a life like that, you deserve every minute, every minute of the maximum amount of punishment, time to sit down and contemplate what you've done to this world, not just to me," Sekyiwa Shakur said.
卡尔利·克尔尼（Carli Kierny）法官在宣判戴维斯时表示，尽管自枪击事件以来已经过去了几十年，戴维斯不会仅仅“逍遥法外”地逃脱夺走他人生命的责任。“此时，你将为你所做的事面对正义，”她说。
Judge Carli Kierny, in sentencing Davis, said despite the decades that had elapsed since the killing, Davis would not just "walk away" from taking a man's life. "At this time, you are going to face justice for what you did," she said.
此判决是在夏库尔于1996年9月7日在拉斯维加斯大道附近遭遇驱车射击事件后刚刚超过30年作出的。夏库尔在被枪击六天后因枪伤不治身亡。
The sentence comes just over 30 years after Shakur's drive-by shooting near the Las Vegas Strip on Sept. 7, 1996. Shakur succumbed to his gunshot wounds six days after being gunned down.
在这些年里，戴维斯一直在讲述一个 remarkably 一致的事件经过。在多次警方访谈、他自己自出版的回忆录中，以及多次面向全球的镜头访谈中，戴维斯据称供认了检察官所描述的他在此次臭名昭著的谋杀案中担任“指挥射击”角色的事实。
In the ensuing years, Davis went on to tell a remarkably consistent account of what happened that night. In multiple police interviews, on the pages of his own self-published memoir, and in multiple on-camera interviews for the world to see, Davis allegedly confessed to what prosecutors would describe as his "shot caller" role in the infamous killing.
“我击败了街头，我击败了联邦特工，我也击败了癌症，”检察官马克·迪贾科莫（Marc DiGiacomo）在结案陈词中引用戴维斯的话对陪审团说道。“现在，他试图击败你们这12个人……戴维斯先生正试图逃脱对他人尽皆知（即便是他自己）所犯罪行的责任。说到底，要让他为自己所犯的罪行承担责任。”现年63岁的戴维斯表示，他计划对定罪提出上诉。
"I beat the streets, I beat the Feds, and I beat cancer," prosecutor Marc DiGiacomo quoted of Davis' own words to the jury in his closing argument. "Now, he's trying to beat 12 of you... Mr. Davis is attempting to escape responsibility for a crime everybody knows he committed, even him... End of the day, hold him accountable for the crime he committed." Davis, now 63, has said he plans to appeal his conviction.
戴维斯曾是洛杉矶的一个帮派头目，后来退隐至拉斯维加斯郊区生活。2023年9月，他因涉嫌与沙库尔谋杀案相关而被捕，被指控使用致命武器实施谋杀，且作案目的是为了扶持、推动或协助某个犯罪帮派。自被捕以来，他一直被羁押。被捕后，戴维斯坚称自己无罪并拒绝认罪。
A onetime Los Angeles gang leader who later retired to the Vegas suburbs, Davis was arrested in September 2023 and charged with murder with the use of a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang, in connection with Shakur's murder. He has been in custody ever since. Once arrested, Davis pleaded not guilty and insisted on his innocence.
他的律师辩称，戴维斯关于自己参与谋杀的说法纯属谎言，也没有足够证据能证明案发当晚他确实身处拉斯维加斯，更无法证明他当时就在那辆据称发射出致命子弹的白色凯迪拉克车内。
His lawyers argued he lied about his involvement in the murder and that there wasn't enough proof to put him in Vegas that night, much less in the white Cadillac from which the fatal .40 Glock shots were allegedly fired.
“本案的关键问题就在于：即便某人声称了某些事实，这些话就一定是真的吗？”戴维斯的律师迈克尔·桑夫特试图以此说服陪审团。
"The danger in this case has always been, just because we say something, is it true?" Davis' lawyer Michael Sanft said in his attempt to persuade the jury.
然而在此前数年里，戴维斯却多次谈及自己在这起谋杀案中所扮演的关键角色。他反复承认自己与沙库尔的死亡脱不了干系。据他所述，案发当晚泰森与塞尔登的拳击赛之后，双方通过说唱歌曲互相攻击、帮派间也不断展开报复行动，矛盾最终升级为致命冲突，才导致了这起命案。
But in the years prior, Davis had plenty to say about his crucial role in the killing. He repeatedly admitted to his alleged role in Shakur's death, which he said was prompted by an escalating tit-for-tat of diss track and gangland retaliation that all came to a deadly head after the Tyson vs. Seldon boxing match the night of the shooting.
检方指出，戴维斯不仅继续讲述自己的“故事”，甚至还借此牟利，此举显然违反了他此前与洛杉矶联合专案组达成的豁免协议。事实上，拉斯维加斯的调查人员认为，正是戴维斯在公开场合的诸多言论重新推动了案件的调查进程，他们随后也努力为这些说法寻找佐证。
In continuing to tell his story and even profit from it, prosecutors said, Davis violated his own previous immunity agreement with a joint LA-task force. In fact, Vegas investigators credit Davis' many public statements for reinvigorating the case -- statements they worked to corroborate.
最终，由12名克拉克县民众组成的陪审团认同了检方的观点：戴维斯自己的供述，再加上庭审中呈现的其他证据，足以证明他的罪行。今年8月，经过不到三小时的商议后，陪审团一致裁定戴维斯犯有一级谋杀罪，且作案时使用了致命武器。
A jury of 12 Clark County citizens agreed -- that Davis' own words, bolstered by other evidence brought at trial, were to be believed. After less than three hours' deliberation in August, they unanimously found Davis guilty of first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon.
检方称，虽然戴维斯并未亲自扣动扳机，但他策划了当晚针对这位说唱巨星的汽车枪击案。
Prosecutors said that, though he did not pull the trigger, Davis orchestrated the rap icon's drive-by shooting that night.