input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. (CNN) -- Five Somali men were convicted in the Netherlands of plotting a hijack at sea and sentenced to five years in prison, CNN affiliate RTL reported Thursday. 

The trial of the five, said to be the first trial of pirates in Europe in modern times, opened in Rotterdam District Court May 25. 

The men were captured by the Danish navy in January 2009 in the Gulf of Aden, off Somalia, after a cargo ship with a Dutch Antilles flag was attacked, said Wim de Bruin, a spokesman for the Netherlands National Prosecutor's Office. 

"The ship of the pirates was destroyed by the Danish navy, and the pirates were captured and handed to the Dutch authorities," he said. 

The pirates are Ahmed Yusuf Farah, 25, Jama Mohamed Samatar, 45, Abdirisaq Abdulahi Hirsi, 33, Sayid Ali Garaar, 39, and Osman Musse Farah, 32, de Bruin said. 

They had faced a maximum sentence of nine to 12 years, he added. 

Another suspected Somali pirate is awaiting sentencing in the United States, where he pleaded guilty in May to hijacking and kidnapping. 

Prosecutors say Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse led an attack on a U.S.-flagged vessel, the Maersk Alabama, off the coast of Africa last year. 

He pleaded guilty May 19 in a New York federal court to felony counts of hijacking maritime vessels, kidnapping and hostage taking for his role in the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean on April 8, 2009. 

Muse faces a maximum sentence of almost 34 years behind bars when he is sentenced October 19.  1. Who reported something?
2. What happened in 2009?
3. by whom?
4. Did they go to court?
5. When?
6. Where?
7. What were they being tried as?
8. How many were there?
9. Were they innocent?
10. Who found them guilty?
11. How much time could they have gotten?
12. What did they get?
13. Who caught them?
14. What had they done?
15. Did this happen in America?
16. Where then?
17. What did happen in the U.S.?
18. What happens in the fall?
19. On what day?
20. How much time could he get?
numbered_answers: 1. CNN affiliate
2. men were captured
3. Danish navy
4. yes
5. May 25.
6. Europe
7. pirates
8. Five
9. no
10. Dutch authorities
11. nine to 12 years
12. five years in prison
13. Danish navy
14. plotting a hijack at sea
15. no
16. Gulf of Aden, off Somalia
17. another pirate is awaiting sentencing in United States
18. Muse will be sentenced
19. October 19
20. 34 years behind bars

input: CHAPTER XXXVI 

THE CHARLATAN UNMASKED 

There seemed for the next few minutes to be a somewhat singular abstention from any desire to interfere with the two people who stood in the centre of the little group, hand-in-hand. Saton, after his first speech, and after Lois had given him her hands, had turned a little defiantly toward Rochester, who remained, however, unmoved, his elbow resting upon the broad mantelpiece, his face almost expressionless. Vandermere, too, stood on one side and held his peace, though the effort with which he did so was a visible one. Lady Mary looked anxiously towards them. Pauline had shrunk back, as though something in the situation terrified her. 

Even Saton himself felt that it was the silence before the storm. The courage which he had summoned up to meet a storm of disapproval, began to ebb slowly away in the face of this unnatural silence. It was clear that the onus of further speech was to rest with him. 

Still retaining Lois' hand, he turned toward Rochester. 

"You have forbidden me to enter your house, or to hold any communication with your ward until she was of age, Mr. Rochester," he said. "One of your conditions I have obeyed. With regard to the other, I have done as I thought fit. However, to-day she is her own mistress. She has consented to be my wife. I do not need to ask for your consent or approval. If you are not willing that she should be married from your roof, I can take her at once to the Comtesse, who is prepared to receive her."  1. Where did Vanermere stand?
2. who did the onus of further speech rest with?
3. who did he want to marry?
4. was he holding her hands?
5. who did he defiantly turn towards?
6. what expression was on his face?
7. was Lady Mary calm or anxious? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. on one side
2. Saton
3. Lois
4. yes
5. Rochester
6. he was almost expressionless
7. anxious

Q: (CNN) -- The Connecticut Senate on Thursday voted to repeal the death penalty, setting the stage for Connecticut to join several states that have recently abolished capital punishment. 

In the last five years, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and Illinois have repealed the death penalty. California voters will decide the issue in November. 

The bill now goes to the House of Representatives, where it is also expected to pass. Gov. Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, has vowed to sign the measure into law should it reach his desk, his office said. 

"For everyone, it's a vote of conscience," said Senate President Donald Williams Jr., a Democrat who says he's long supported a repeal. "We have a majority of legislators in Connecticut in favor of this so that the energies of our criminal justice system can be focused in a more appropriate manner." 

In 2009, state lawmakers in both houses tried to pass a similar bill, but were ultimately blocked by then-Gov. Jodi Rell, a Republican. 

Capital punishment has existed in Connecticut since its colonial days. But the state was forced to review its death penalty laws beginning in 1972 when a Supreme Court decision required greater consistency in its application. A moratorium was then imposed until a 1976 court decision upheld the constitutionality of capital punishment. 

Since then, Connecticut juries have handed down 15 death sentences. Of those, only one person has actually been executed, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonpartisan group that studies death penalty laws. 

Michael Ross, a convicted serial killer, was put to death by lethal injection in 2005 after giving up his appeals. 

Answer the following questions:
1. Can you tell me some states which have recently repealed the death penalty?
2. How long has Connecticut had the death penalty?
3. Was the practice ever placed on a moratorium?
A:
1. New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and Illinois
2. Since 1976
3. Yes