Legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.
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Examples for "capital punishment"
Examples for "capital punishment"
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Washington state's current laws allowing capital punishment went into effect in 1981.
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Andrew Cuomo, famously opposed capital punishment in the state of New York.
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Ricketts has called capital punishment a deterrent and supports the state referendum.
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Russia introduced a moratorium on capital punishment more than a decade ago.
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They protested against oaths even in courts of law and capital punishment.
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Being free in the Sea was a death sentence all its own.
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The maximum penalty for such charges is the death sentence, she said.
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That's a death sentence, Prime Minister Scott Morrison told 2GB yesterday morning.
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In 1678, the death sentence was taken away from the church courts.
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But in both cases the death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
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He has been sentenced to death by the Bureau of Military Justice.
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The first five looked as if they had been sentenced to death.
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His wife was soon sentenced to death by the infamous Fouquier Tinville.
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He was indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced to death in one day.
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Sentence: Msomi was sentenced to death by hanging at Pretoria High Court.
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However, prosecutors have yet to decide whether to seek the death penalty.
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Under military law, he cannot plead guilty to a death penalty case.
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New York's highest state court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional in 2004.
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The year also saw two states taking action against the death penalty.
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Prosecutors have said they may seek the death penalty in the case.
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Does he not deserve the death punishment of high treason?
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Their sentence was accordingly commuted to flogging, the death punishment being reserved for their leaders.
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Here was conflict, here the death punishment was carried out; he saw Tatars, Cossacks of the Don.
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In 1819 William Wilberforce presented a petition from the Society of Friends to Parliament against death punishment for crimes other than murder.
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The President especially, declared himself vehemently in favor of the death punishment, and expressed much anger against those who were in favor of its abolition.