Legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.
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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.
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