1·He has spent the last seven months in solitary confinement – a punishment that causes many prisoners to go mad and which the US National Commission on Prisons called “torturous.”
他已经被单独监禁了七个月——这种惩罚导致许多被关押者发疯，美国国家监狱委员会称之为“折磨”。
2·Capital punishment is claimed to deter wrongdoing even better than lifelong confinement.
死刑之所以需要是因为它在制止犯罪方面甚至比终身监禁更有效。