章莹颖案量刑审判开始 嫌犯可能想以遗体信息换取免死判罚 | 外媒说

美国当地时间7月8日上午，中国访问学者章莹颖被谋杀案审判正式进入量刑阶段。

量刑阶段将最后决定克里斯滕森是否被处以极刑——死刑。据悉，最终的量刑结果预计将在两周后揭晓。

6月24日下午1:00时，被告克里斯滕森3项指控罪名全部成立（1项“绑架谋杀罪”和2项“虚假陈述罪”），但这不意味着克里斯滕森就能被判处死刑。

12名陪审员必须再次达成一致意见，决定是否适用死刑。如有一人持不同意见，嫌犯就将逃脱死刑判罚。

自2011年起，伊利诺伊州已废除死刑，而且在此之前的11年里没有作出过死刑判决。但联邦检察官仍然可以在废除死刑的州提出死刑控告。

Illinois abolished capital punishment in 2011 and put a moratorium on the practice 11 years before that. But federal prosecutors can still seek the death penalty in states that have abolished capital punishment. 

换句话说，克里斯滕森是该州第一个面临美国联邦检方死刑控告的被告。

量刑阶段第一天情况如何？美国伊利诺伊州当地媒体The News-Gazette 对现场情况进行了文字直播。

控方量刑阶段列8大重判因素

据美国媒体The News-Gazette报道，正式审判开始后，代表公诉方的检察官尼尔森（James Nelson）从章莹颖日记的最后一行开始，展开了他的陈述。

U.S. Department of Justice attorney James Nelson gave the opening statement for the prosecution, starting with the last line from Ms. Zhang's journal.

“生命太短暂，不愿意平凡。” 

 "Life is too short to be ordinary."

“她无法预知自己的生命有多短暂，”尼尔森说。

"She had no way of knowing how short her life would be," he said. 

“章莹颖不仅仅是一位国际访问学者，还是一个孝顺且充满爱的女儿，她是全家人的希望。”

He said, "Yingying was far more than just an international scholar," adding "she was a devoted and loving daughter” and “she was the hope of her family."

尼尔森说，她的爸爸至今仍难以直视女儿的照片。她成年后，与妈妈情同姐妹，无所不谈。

Nelson said her father still has difficulty looking at photos of her, and once she was an adult, was like a sister with her mother, talking all the time.

她喜欢唱歌，有一个美妙的歌喉，“但是那个美妙的声音在2017年6月9日永远沉寂了。”

He said she had a beautiful voice and loved to sing, "but on June 9, 2017, that beautiful voice fell silent."

尼尔森呼吁陪审团给予死刑判决。他说，“这不是一个常规的犯罪，而是冷酷的、谋划长达数月之久的残忍行径。”

Calling for the death penalty, Nelson said it was "not an ordinary crime. It was cold, calculated, cruel and months in the making."

尼尔森列举了8项法定加重判决因素，其中包括，

1. 克里斯滕森作案有预谋

2. 行为极其残忍

3. 章莹颖英语不那么好，更愿意相信一个警察（章莹颖失踪当天，克里斯滕森向她出示了警徽，自称是一名警察，从而骗章莹颖上了他的车。）
4. 章莹颖身材娇小是“理想的”受害者 （克里斯滕森欺负弱势者）

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He went through the government's eight aggravating factors, including that he planned it, it was cruel, that she spoke poor English and was likely to trust a police officer, and that she was small and the ideal size of a victim.

同时，律师表示，克里斯滕森通过清理犯罪现场和藏匿被害者的遗体来阻挠调查。“这使得死者无法在中国故土安葬。这使得痛苦无止无休”（克里斯滕森至今未供述章莹颖的遗体下落。）

Also, the attorney said Christensen obstructed the investigation by cleaning the crime scene and hiding her body. "There will be no proper burial in China. There will be no closure. You will see the anguish."

律师表示，这样恶劣的罪行理应重判。律师要求陪审团判克里斯滕森死刑。

He said this crime "deserves an extraordinary penalty" and asked the jury to sentence Christensen to death.

△7月8日，章莹颖的家人和律师抵达法庭。图/视觉中国

辩方列54条减罪理由

辩方给陪审团提出了54条克里斯滕森应该减轻罪行的理由，包括他酗酒的母亲、他此前没有犯罪记录，以及他在伊州大学咨询中心没有得到合理的治疗等。

They went over the defense's list of 54 mitigating factors, or reasons Christensen shouldn’t receive death penalty, which range from his alcoholic mother to no criminal history to allegedly not receiving proper care at the UI Counseling Center.

辩方由法庭指定的律师Julie Brain发表了辩护方的开案陈词。她说，克里斯滕森“会在监狱死去，孤独一人，周围只有陌生人。” 

For the defense, court-appointed attorney Julie Brain gave the opening, saying Christensen "will die in prison, alone, with strangers."

“唯一问题是，他是在监狱中终老死去，还是以被判决死刑的方式终结生命，”她说。

"The only question that remains is when his death occurs — at the end of his natural life or at a date the government chooses," she said.

辩方律师把克里斯滕森描述成为一个被精神健康问题困扰一生的人——他经常半夜惊醒、梦游，还有会导致神经衰弱的偏头痛。

She described Christensen as someone who struggled his whole life with mental health issues — night terrors, walking in his sleep, debilitating migraines.

她说，克里斯滕森15岁时，他爸爸发现他1月份半夜赤脚跑出家门到街上，随后闯入街边的面包车上。 

When he was 15, she said he was home sick when his father found him running on the porch barefoot in January, then down the driveway into the side of a van.

在之后接受检测时，他并没有发现服用任何药物，当他醒来后，他说对发生的事情感到不安。

When he was tested, no drugs were found, and when he came to, he said he was disturbed by what happened, she said.

克里斯滕森的成绩一落千丈，不过他还是考进了一所技术学院，并最终进入威斯康星大学，然后去伊利诺伊州大学（攻读博士）。

His grades plummeted, but he got into a technical college, and eventually into the University of Wisconsin, then Illinois.

律师表示，在伊利诺伊州大学期间也深受困扰，情况恶化。她说，克里斯滕森曾寻求过心理健康治疗，但没有得到他所需要的帮助。

But he struggled at UI, too, as the demands increased. She said he sought mental health treatment, but didn’t get the help he needed.

“犯下该罪的确是他的错，但是这不是一个应该判处以死刑的案件。”他的律师表示。

While she said the crime is "his fault," "this is not a case that deserves the death penalty."

“他也不是连环杀手。”她的说法驳斥了检方此前提出的克里斯滕森声称有13名受害者的说法。（章莹颖失踪初期，FBI曾在嫌犯女友身上安装窃听装置，记录了嫌犯和女友的8次对话。克里斯滕森还在录音中称章莹颖是自己的第13个受害者。）

"He is not a serial killer,"she said, refuting Christensen’s claim of 13 victims.

律师还表示，在他被监禁的两年时间内，他没有表现出任何的危险迹象。她鼓励陪审员做出道德的决定，保持开放的心态，并判处他终身监禁而非死刑。

Said he's shown no signs of dangerousness in two years in jail. She encouraged jurors to make a moral decision, to keep an open mind, and to sentence him to life in prison without the possibility of release.

据《南华早报》报道，现场，受害者章莹颖的未婚夫侯霄霖讲述了他们相爱相知的故事。我们同为广州中山大学的本科生。“她聪明、勇敢、乐观，是我生命中遇到过的最好的女孩。”

The victim's fiancé, Xiaolin Hou, told the jury the couple met while undergraduates at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China.

"She's smart, she's brave, she's optimistic, she's the best girl I ever met," he said.

现场播放了章莹颖朋友录制的7段视频。

她去美国后我就开始担心她的安全，因为章对所有人都很好。

Lixha Fang said she worried for her friend's safety when she moved to the US because Zhang was so nice to everyone.

另一位朋友表示，第一次在宿舍见到章莹颖时，就被这个“瘦瘦的、笑容满面的女孩”吸引住了，很快成为亲密的朋友。

Another friend, Ye Cai, said when she first met Zhang in their dorm, she was struck by a "skinny, very smiley girl", and the pair soon became close friends. She said Zhang was very close to her family and called them frequently.

听到视频里对章莹颖的描述，她的哥哥站起身，含泪离开了法庭。

Hearing this, Zhang's brother got up and left the courtroom in tears.

据纽约时报报道，30岁的克里斯滕森可能会向检方提出告知他对章莹颖的遗体做了什么作为免死交换条件。目前，章莹颖的遗体仍未找到。

The 30-year-old Christensen might testify. And in an effort to save his life, he could possibly reveal what he did with Zhang's body, which has never been found.

△央视视频：章莹颖案嫌犯乘囚车离开法庭

编辑：王瑜

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