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Synonyms for capital punishment


Grammar : Noun



Définition of capital punishment

  • noun death penalty
Example sentences :
  • It is most likely that the court will not recur to capital punishment again.
  • Extract from : « Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I (of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • Hanging was the usual mode of capital punishment with the Anglo-Saxons.
  • Extract from : « Bygone Punishments » by William Andrews
  • Farel expressly says, that "Servetus deserved a capital punishment."
  • Extract from : « Fox's Book of Martyrs » by John Foxe
  • Capital punishment was reserved for traitors, actual and potential.
  • Extract from : « The Witch-cult in Western Europe » by Margaret Alice Murray
  • The capital punishment of poor Nat Cringle was as nothing to this.
  • Extract from : « Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks » by Bracebridge Hemyng
  • Capital Punishment is a relic of barbarism which society has not yet outgrown.
  • Extract from : « Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 » by Various
  • There may be divergences, as in reference to the non-infliction of capital punishment.
  • Extract from : « The Fixed Period » by Anthony Trollope
  • Imprisonment, capital punishment and war are yet crude in their methods.
  • Extract from : « Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 » by Various
  • Such in our time is capital punishment and all punishment in general.
  • Extract from : « Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 » by Various
  • Pertaining to the head, as, capital punishment, which involves the forfeiture of the head.
  • Extract from : « Orthography » by Elmer W. Cavins

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