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Synonyms for death penalty
death penal·ty
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death penaltynoun
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capital punishmentdeath penaltynoun
A punishment in which the person who committed the offence is put to death by the state.
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capital punishment
Princeton's WordNet
execution, executing, capital punishment, death penaltynoun
putting a condemned person to death
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slaying, performance, carrying into action, execution, implementation, instruction execution, capital punishment, execution of instrument, executing, carrying out, murder, writ of execution
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| #557 | performance | |
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| #3458 | execution | |
| #4553 | murder | |
| #12138 | executing | |
| #39894 | slaying |
How to use death penalty in a sentence?
The death penalty? Give me a break. It's easy. Abortion? Absolutely easy. Nobody ever thought the Constitution prevented restrictions on abortion. Homosexual sodomy? Come on. For 200 years, it was criminal in every state.
Many people will regard the use of emergency law as the same as sentencing Hong Kong to the death penalty, the city is dying, everyone is losing confidence...
We abhor drug crime, but we abhor the death penalty. We think that these two Australians deserve to be punished, but they certainly don't deserve to be executed.
The concern is that the airing of the documentary will result in a media trial -- that will essentially leave the judiciary with no option but to uphold the death penalty, my main problem, how can we screen this documentary when there's an appeals process underway?
You know which candidate will have the courage to fight unjust mandatory minimums and the death penalty.
Translations for death penalty
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- إعدام, عقوبة الإعدام, عقوبة الموتArabic
- pena de mortCatalan, Valencian
- trest smrtiCzech
- TodesstrafeGerman
- mortpunoEsperanto
- pena de muerteSpanish
- kuolemantuomioFinnish
- punition capitale, peine capitale, peine de mortFrench
- मृत्युदंडHindi
- halálbüntetésHungarian
- մահապատիժArmenian
- dauðarefsingIcelandic
- pena di morte, pena capitaleItalian
- 死罪, 極刑, 死刑Japanese
- 사형Korean
- poena mortisLatin
- nāvessodsLatvian
- dødsstraffNorwegian
- doodstrafDutch
- dødsstraffNorwegian Nynorsk
- pena de mortePortuguese
- высшая мера наказания, смертная казньRussian
- trest smrtiSlovak
- smrtna kazenSlovene
- dödsstraffSwedish
- idam cezası, ölüm cezasıTurkish
- deadapönodVolapük
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