| 单词 | death penalty |
| 释义 | death penalty (once / 3343 pages) n WORD FAMILY death penalty: death penalties USAGE EXAMPLESDeath penalty experts said it was exceedingly rare for capital defendants to represent themselves after allowing lawyers to handle the initial part of a case. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) The position reflects the American reality of supporting the death penalty in principle, but increasingly outlawing it in practice. The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016) Short of the death penalty, which the district attorney lamented was not available, her sentence was the harshest one possible. New York Times(Jan 12, 2012) n putting a condemned person to death Syn|Hypo|Hyper capital punishment, executing, execution burning, burning at the stake execution by fire hanginga form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead burning, electrocutionexecution by electricity beheading, decapitationexecution by cutting off the victim's head crucifixionthe act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross auto-da-fethe burning to death of heretics (as during the Spanish Inquisition) corporal punishment the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime |
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