The judicially ordered execution of a person as a punishment for a serious crime.
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Examples for "capital punishment"
Examples for "capital punishment"
1Washington state's current laws allowing capital punishment went into effect in 1981.
2Andrew Cuomo, famously opposed capital punishment in the state of New York.
3Ricketts has called capital punishment a deterrent and supports the state referendum.
4Russia introduced a moratorium on capital punishment more than a decade ago.
5They protested against oaths even in courts of law and capital punishment.
1However, prosecutors have yet to decide whether to seek the death penalty.
2Under military law, he cannot plead guilty to a death penalty case.
3New York's highest state court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional in 2004.
4The year also saw two states taking action against the death penalty.
5Prosecutors have said they may seek the death penalty in the case.
1Being free in the Sea was a death sentence all its own.
2The maximum penalty for such charges is the death sentence, she said.
3That's a death sentence, Prime Minister Scott Morrison told 2GB yesterday morning.
4In 1678, the death sentence was taken away from the church courts.
5But in both cases the death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
6Betty Winter read the account of the sensational arrest and death sentence.
7Convictions are common, although the death sentence has never been carried out.
8At eleven o'clock the Court pronounces in summary form the death sentence.
9But some relatives of his victims opposed him receiving the death sentence.
10The death sentence had been pronounced against every son of the Hebrews.
11Many were previously a death sentence, said Sean Whelan, chief financial officer.
12The trial was a short one, and the death sentence was passed.
13Under Iran's Islamic sharia law, the charge could carry the death sentence.
14Huong has 15 days in which to appeal against the death sentence.
15The death sentence is pronounced and must be carried out without delay.
16New approaches might also make the infection less of a death sentence.