Capital punishment

Capital punishment

The legal imposition of a death sentence upon a convicted offender for committing a capital crime or offence. Also called the death penalty, capital punishment is a controversial legal practise in many countries around the world, with most European countries banning it all together. Derived from the Latin word capitalis which literally means the head, capital punishment was originally carried out by severing the head from the body.

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Capital Punishment

History; American history

During the early nineteenth century, a movement arose to end the death penalty.

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The legal imposition of a sentence of death upon a convicted offender. Another term for the death penalty.

capital punishment

Law enforcement; Crime & punishment

The legal imposition of a death sentence upon a convicted offender for committing a capital crime or offence. Also called the death penalty, capital punishment is a controversial ...

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Law; General law

The sentence of death, awarded to those who commit very serious crimes. It is otherwise known as the death penalty.

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Religion; Catholic church

The infliction by due legal process of the penalty of death as a punishment for crime.

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