Definition of capital punishment in US English:
capital punishment
nounˈkæpədl ˈpənɪʃməntˈkapədl ˈpəniSHmənt
The legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime.
the abolition of capital punishment
Example sentencesExamples
- It will show itself in cases about capital punishment, corporate responsibility, gun control, you name it.
- It was at the forefront of opposing capital punishment and demanding prison reform.
- The abolition of capital punishment was frequently urged in colonial politics and after.
- The punishment was capital punishment and all of this was done to teach them a lesson.
- Juries in death penalty cases are always quizzed about their attitudes on capital punishment before the start of the trial.
- Through this we can also see that capital punishment is not necessarily a form of punishment at all.
- Apprehensions that doing away with capital punishment can lead to more crime should be duly addressed.
- I was hoping he'd be sent to jail for life, and not just because I oppose capital punishment.
- The fact that the International Covenant sanctions capital punishment must be seen in this context.
- In Poland it became instrumental to the abolition of capital punishment.
- Though physical torture and capital punishment were opposed in all cases, no overt political position was to be taken.
- That cost is not difficult to justify where capital punishment is the penalty for first-degree murder.
- Severe punishments must be meted out and if necessary capital punishment will be needed.
- He could have been sentenced to death, but his prosecutors didn't seek capital punishment.
- Or take the claim that forgiveness is superior to revenge, and that capital punishment is mere revenge.
- But, as with torture, the harm capital punishment does is not limited to its subject.
- They end up robbing a bank, for which the penalty in China is capital punishment.
- One of the uses of capital punishment is to deter other criminals from committing more crimes.
- He called for the restoration of corporal and capital punishment and pledged support for apartheid in South Africa.
- The crimes which would merit capital punishment for those in favour of same are indeed appalling.