| 单词 | capital punishment |
| 释义 | capital punishmentSEE SYNONYMS FOR capital punishment ON THESAURUS.COM nounpunishment by death for a crime; death penalty. Origin of capital punishmentFirst recorded in 1575–85 Words nearby capital punishmentcapital loss, capitally, capital market, capital offense, capital outlay, capital punishment, capital resources, capital ship, capital stock, capital structure, capital sum Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for capital punishment
British Dictionary definitions for capital punishmentcapital punishment nounthe punishment of death for a crime; death penalty Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for capital punishment (1 of 2)capital punishment The death penalty for a crime. Cultural definitions for capital punishment (2 of 2)capital punishment The infliction of the death penalty as punishment for certain crimes. (See capital offense.) notes for capital punishmentIn the United States, capital punishment has been an extremely controversial issue on legal, moral, and ethical grounds. In 1972, the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was not, in principle, cruel and unusual punishment (and not, therefore, unconstitutional), but that its implementation through existing state laws was unconstitutional. In 1976, the Supreme Court again ruled that the death penalty was not unconstitutional, though a mandatory death penalty for any crime was. Thirty-nine states now practice the death penalty. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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