Now, that's really good compared to the mid-1980s, when it was in excess of 80 percent, but we can't explain the decline in death sentences and the affinity for life without the possibility of parole by an erosion of support for the death penalty, because people still support the death penalty.
与之相比，一个很好的例子是80年代中期，当时 这个数字是超过 80%， 但我们不能简单的解释死刑判决的减少是因为人们对生命的关注 而把死刑支持者言论减少的可能性排除在外。 ，因为有人仍支持死刑。