That's a process that seems to be continuing, but if it outstrips behavior by the standards of the day, things always look more barbaric than they would have been by historic standards. So today, we get exercised -- and rightly so -- if a handful of murderers get executed by lethal injection in Texas after a 15-year appeal process. We don't consider that a couple of hundred years ago, they may have been burned
那个过程可能看起来还在继续， 但是如果按照现在的标准它超过了行为， 事情比他们从历史标准上看来 要变得更加野蛮。所以，现在，我们受到训练--很应该地-- 如果有一小撮杀人犯经过15年的上诉程序 在得克萨斯受到注射死刑的惩罚。我们不认为 在几百年前，他们会因为批评国王