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Definition of Capital punishment

1. Noun. Putting a condemned person to death.

Definition of Capital punishment

1. Noun. punishment by death ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Capital punishment

1. The use of the death penalty for certain crimes. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Capital Punishment

Literary usage of Capital punishment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1910)
"It was not till 1837, however, that Maine abolished capital punishment. In the meantime the agitation spread to Massachusetts, where a committee of the ..."

2. The Contemporary Review (1876)
"capital punishment IN ENGLAND. THE earlier history of this kingdom affords comparatively few materials for the study of legal capital punishment. ..."

3. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1911)
"capital punishment Committee. Report of the committee to inquire into the ... capital punishment Committee. Report in favor of the abolition of capital ..."

4. The Christian Examiner (1847)
"ABOLITION OF capital punishment* ,THE subject of capital punishment is likely to be thoroughly discussed. Throughout our own country especially, 2. ..."

5. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll by Robert Green Ingersoll (1901)
"capital punishment degrades and hardens a community and it is a work of savagery. ... capital punishment does not prevent murder, but sets an example—an ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"But the fact that many of those who take this theoretical view acquiesce in the retention of capital punishment in practise shows that the traditional ..."

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