一名妻子在随机袭击中被刺死、孙女目睹全过程的鳏夫表示，澳大利亚应恢复死刑，但该国“太‘觉醒’了”。Victor White 的妻子 Vyleen 于 2024 年 2 月在伊普斯维奇 Redbank Town Square 购物中心停车场被一名 16 岁少年杀害。
A widower whose wife was fatally stabbed in a random attack while their granddaughter watched says Australia should reintroduce the death penalty, but the country is “too woke.”Victor White’s wife, Vyleen, was killed by a 16-year-old boy in the car park of Redbank Town Square shopping centre in Ipswich, in February 2024. White, 70, was stabbed in the heart before the boy took her car keys and fled in the vehicle. He was last year sentenced to 16 years in jail after pleading guilty to murder and other offenses.
White 今年 70 岁，他在接受 7News 采访时表示，Vyleen 在商场只待了五分钟，就遭遇了夺走她生命的袭击。
The teen unsuccessfully appealed against the sentence in April. Her husband, White told 7News that Vyleen had only been at the shops for five minutes before the attack that claimed her life.
他说，那名少年“毫不犹豫地将一把 17 厘米长的刀刺入她的心脏”。
The boy, he said, “didn’t think twice about sinking a 17 centimeter blade into her heart”.
“如果不判死刑，他至少应服刑 30 年或 40 年，剥夺他未来的任何生活，”他说。
“If not the death penalty, he should have served at least 30 or 40 years of his life to deny him any lifestyle in the future,” he said.
“人们说，你得给那家伙一点同情心，但他在我孙女面前完全没有表现出任何同情心，不是吗？
“People say, you’ve got to show the guy compassion, but he showed none at all in front of my granddaughter, did he?
“我永远不会原谅他所做的一切。” White 的死成为推动昆士兰州法律变革、打击青少年犯罪的催化剂，促成了“成人犯罪、成人判刑”立法的出台。
“I’ll never ever forgive him for what he’s done.”White’s death was a catalyst for changes to Queensland laws cracking down on young offenders, with the introduction of “adult crime, adult time” legislation.
White 表示，应针对“极其恶劣”的罪行恢复死刑，称“也许人们在杀害其他无辜者前会三思而后行”。“但这在本国永远不会发生。这里‘觉醒’的人太多了，”他说。
White said the death penalty should be reintroduced for “very heinous” crimes, saying “maybe people would have second thoughts about killing other innocent people.”“But that’ll never happen in this country. There’s too many woke people out there,” he said.
澳大利亚的死刑历史 到 1985 年，澳大利亚所有州和领地均已废除死刑，最后一次执行死刑是在 1967 年 2 月 2 日。
Australia’s death penalty history The death penalty was abolished across all Australian states and territories by 1985, and the last execution was carried out on February 2, 1967.
Ronald Ryan 是最后一名被执行死刑的人，他因在从 Pentridge 监狱越狱时杀害狱警 Glen Hodson，在维多利亚州被绞死。自 1901 年联邦成立以来，全国共有 125 人被处决。
Ronald Ryan was the last person to suffer the sentence when he was hanged in Victoria for killing prison officer Glen Hodson during an escape from Pentridge Prison. In total, 125 people were executed in the country since Federation in 1901.
澳大利亚正式加入废除死刑运动，该运动主张在全球范围内禁止死刑。
Australia officially subscribes to the abolitionist movement, which advocates for capital punishment to be banned worldwide.
Roy Morgan公司2009年进行的一项民调发现，只有23%的澳大利亚人支持对谋杀罪判处死刑而非监禁。
A Roy Morgan poll conducted in 2009 found only 23 per cent of Australians favored the death penalty over imprisonment for murder.
2014年的另一项民调显示，澳大利亚人中有微弱多数——52.5%——支持对致命恐怖袭击判处死刑。
Another poll in 2014 showed a small majority of Australians – 52.5 per cent – favored the death penalty for fatal terror attacks.
克里斯塔·派克发言 美国田纳西州于9月30日对谋杀犯克里斯塔·派克执行死刑的失败尝试，重新点燃了关于死刑执行的辩论和公众关注。
Christa Pike speaks Debate and public attention over executions was reignited by the botched attempt to put US murderer Christa Pike to death in Tennessee on Sept. 30.
现年50岁的她，在1995年年仅18岁时刺杀了19岁的同学科琳·斯莱默。
Now 50, she was 18 when she committed the 1995 stabbing murder of 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer.
派克和她的男友折磨并杀害了斯莱默，成为被判处死刑的最年轻女性之一。
Pike and her boyfriend tortured and killed Slemmer, becoming one of the youngest women to be sentenced to death.
在死囚牢房度过30年的派克，在注射两剂致命药物后幸存。她的律师呼吁放弃任何进一步的执行尝试。
Pike, who spent 30 years on death row, survived two doses of lethal injection. Her lawyers have called for any further attempts to be abandoned.
“自那晚以来，没有一刻我不在疼痛中，”派克在周五发布的一份声明中说。
“There hasn’t been a moment since that night when I haven’t been in pain,” Pike said in a statement released on Friday. My body hurts. My arms hurt.
“我的身体疼。我的手臂疼。我的手疼。我的喉咙疼。我仍然难以说话。而且疼痛不仅仅是身体上的。我的思想和灵魂也在疼痛。”
My hands hurt. My throat hurts. I still struggle to speak.
随后，美国战争部长皮特·赫格塞斯决定直播恐怖分子尼达尔·哈桑的行刑过程（由行刑队执行），引发了争议。
And the pain isn’t just physical. There is pain in my mind and in my soul.”Then there has been the controversy over US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s decision to live stream the execution of terrorist Nidal Hasan who is to be killed by firing squad.
赫格塞斯表示，公开执行过程将对其他人起到威慑作用，但唐纳德·特朗普总统后来介入，取消了直播计划。
Hegseth said making the execution public would be a deterrent to others but President Donald Trump later stepped in to scrap the plans to broadcast it.