death-penalty

  • 11death penalty — The extreme penalty for the commission of a crime, to be executed within the manner provided by statute, such as hanging, electrocution, or asphyxiation by gas. There is a definite legislative trend toward the abolition of the death penalty,… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 12death penalty — noun Death penalty is used before these nouns: ↑case …

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  • 13Death Penalty (album) — Death Penalty Studio album by Witchfinder General Released 1982 …

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  • 14Death penalty (disambiguation) — Death penalty may refer to: Capital punishment, the act of putting a person to death In sports Death penalty (NCAA), the nickname for the National Collegiate Athletic Association policy which forbids a school from fielding a certain team for a… …

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  • 15death penalty, the — death ,penalty, the noun * legal punishment by death, usually for a serious crime such as murder. Killing people officially is called capital punishment …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 16death penalty — death′ pen alty n. law capital punishment …

    From formal English to slang

  • 17Death Penalty Focus — Founded in 1988, Death Penalty Focus is a non profit organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment through grassroots organizing, research, and the dissemination of information about the death penalty and its alternatives.[1] With …

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  • 18Death Penalty on Trial — ▪ 2003 by Andrew Rutherford       Along with the report in 2002 that the number of executions carried out worldwide in 2001 3,048 was more than double the 1,457 known to have taken place in 2000 came the news that more than 90% of them had… …

    Universalium

  • 19Death Penalty Information Center — The Death Penalty Information Center (abbreviated DPIC) is a non profit organization that focuses on disseminating studies and reports related to the death penalty by itself and others to the news media and general public. The Center was founded… …

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  • 20Death penalty (NCAA) — The death penalty is the popular term for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) s power to ban a school from competing in a sport for at least one year. It is the harshest penalty that an NCAA member school can receive. It has been… …

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