Crossword clues for death penalty
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context legal English) A punishment in which the person who committed the offence is put to death by the state.
WordNet
n. putting a condemned person to death [syn: execution, executing, capital punishment]
Wikipedia
Death Penalty is the debut studio album by British heavy metal band Witchfinder General. It was released in 1982 on Heavy Metal Records. The album received some criticism for the cover photograph, which featured topless model Joanne Latham. The photograph had been taken in the yard of St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church in Enville, Staffordshire, without the permission of the local Reverend. The album was originally released on LP and picture disc and was later reissued on CD. Pictured on the cover is Phil Cope, Zeeb Parkes, Graham Ditchfield and a member of their road crew. While Peter Hinton is credited with producing this recording, the writers Phil Cope and Zeeb Parkes always felt the credit should have gone to the engineer Robin George.
The death penalty is the popular term for the National Collegiate Athletic Association's power to ban a school from competing in a sport for at least one year. It is the harshest penalty that an NCAA member school can receive.
It has been implemented only five times:
- The University of Kentucky basketball program for the 1952–53 season.
- The basketball program at the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) for the 1973–74 and 1974–75 seasons.
- The Southern Methodist University football program for the 1987 season.
- The Division II men's soccer program at Morehouse College for the 2004 and 2005 seasons.
- The Division III men's tennis program at MacMurray College for the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons.
In the 1980s, two other Division I men's basketball programs, at the University of San Francisco (1982) and Tulane University (1985), self-imposed "death penalties" after revelations of major NCAA violations. These "death penalties" lasted three and four seasons, respectively. The next self-imposed "death penalty" by a Division I school took place in 2015, when Western Kentucky University (WKU) shut down its men's and women's swimming and diving teams after an investigation into alleged hazing.
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 (album), a 1982 album by the heavy-metal band Witchfinder General
- Death Penalty (film), a 1980 television film starring Colleen Dewhurst
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’.