death penalties
State-sanctioned lethal sentences
Death penalties are punishments by execution for serious crimes, typically murder or treason.
The term usually appears in discussions of law and justice: The state abolished the death penalty in 1972, Several inmates on death row have had their death penalties commuted to life sentences.
Also called capital punishment.
- sentenceComplete thought, grammatically
- capital punishmentExecution by legal authority
- crimePunishable illegal act
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
- lethal injectionCapital punishment by needle
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Formal clearing of charges
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Recovery from injury/addiction
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