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death penalty
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A hearing is scheduled for Friday to discuss issues related to the death penalty . ▪ For death penalty adherents, the pendulum has finally swung their way: California will enforce the death penalty more quickly. ▪ If we still ...
Wikipedia
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Death penalty may refer to: Capital punishment , the act of the state putting a person to death In sports Death penalty (NCAA) , the nickname for U.S. college athletics policy which forbids a school from fielding a certain team In entertainment Death Penalty ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context legal English) A punishment in which the person who committed the offence is put to death by the state.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. putting a condemned person to death [syn: execution , executing , capital punishment ]
Usage examples of death penalty.
If the decision went against him and the judges accepted the call for a death penalty, he would be dead before the sun set.
White doesn't want the death penalty and we'd already connected him with Kirby, so we clubbed him with the murder-for-hire angle.
So I concluded by the time I was twenty that, once you stripped away all the bullshit, the death penalty was just another way for rich people to kill poor people—.
Yet he beat the drum to reinstate the death penalty, which alienated the Liberals from mid-road to far left.
These will tend to be the hard-core offenders, the kind of criminals whom the death penalty doesn’.
He blew through it with a series of promises to cut taxes and waste and do something to make sure murderers got the death penalty more often.
Simpson case could have given Fuhrman the death penalty, he’.