the death penaltynoun [ S ]
uk/ˈdeθ ˌpen.əl.ti/us/ˈdeθ ˌpen.əl.t̬i/the legal punishment of death for a crime:
She would like to see the return of the death penalty in Britain.
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Death penalties
- behead
- burn
- capital punishment
- chair
- condemn
- condemn sb to (do) sth
- condemned
- decapitate
- execute
- execution
- executioner
- gallows
- hanging
- hangman
- hung, drawn, and quartered idiom
- noose
- scaffold
- stake
- stone
- string
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