《中英對照讀新聞》Murder victim reappeared years after murderer's execution 謀殺案被害人在兇手伏法多年後出現

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A woman thought to have been murdered in the 1980s has reappeared in China, 16 years after the man convicted of killing her was executed.

中國一名被認定已在一九八○年代被謀殺的女子，現在再度出現，在被判殺害她的男子遭處決十六年後。

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It was the second case in two months in which a "murder victim" has been found alive after police and judicial officials allegedly used torture and forced confessions to convict the suspected murderers.

這是兩個月來第二起警方和司法人員據說動用刑求及逼供將涉嫌兇手定罪之後，「謀殺案被害人」卻被發現尚在人世的案例。

Teng Xingshan was convicted of the April 1987 murder of a woman believed to be Shi Xiaorong in Mayang county in the central province of Hunan. He was executed in January 1989, despite pleas of innocence and accusations that a confession was beaten out of him.

滕興善被判定一九八七年四月在中國中部湖南省麻陽縣謀殺一名被認為是石小榮的女子。他在一九八九年一月被處決，儘管他辯稱自己清白，控訴遭到屈打成招。

But the corpse was misidentified. His alleged victim, Shi, who once worked in Mayang county, has reappeared in her home town in Guizhou province. She has claimed that she never met Teng and urged the Hunan judiciary to rectify the case and declare his trial a miscarriage of justice.

可是這具屍體被認錯了。曾在麻陽縣工作、據稱遭他殺害的石小榮，現在已在貴州省的故鄉出現。她已宣稱自己從未見過滕興善，並籲請湖南司法當局平反本案，並宣佈滕的審判是一樁誤審。

新聞辭典

execution：名詞，處決。execution常見意思是「執行」，另一常見用法是指「處決」。

convict：動詞，定罪。例句：If Michael Jackson was convicted of child molestation, he could go to prison for many years.（如果麥可‧傑克森被判定猥褻兒童罪成立，他可能坐上許多年的牢）。

torture：名詞，刑求。例句：Despite that international law unequivocally and absolutely prohibits torture in all circumstances, it still occurs in dictatorships as well as democracies.（雖然國際法明確絕對地禁止在任何情況下使用刑求，它仍在獨裁國家以及民主國家中發生）。

miscarriage of justice：片語，誤審。例句：The case of Su Chien-ho, Liu Bing-lang and Chuang Lin-hsun was widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice.（蘇建和、劉秉郎和莊林勳案，被廣泛視為一樁誤審）。