Meanings of death punishment in inglês

Does he not deserve the death punishment of high treason?

Their sentence was accordingly commuted to flogging, the death punishment being reserved for their leaders.

Here was conflict, here the death punishment was carried out; he saw Tatars, Cossacks of the Don.

In 1819 William Wilberforce presented a petition from the Society of Friends to Parliament against death punishment for crimes other than murder.

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.