capital punishment
noun
: punishment by death : the practice of killing people as punishment for serious crimes
an opponent of capital punishment
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This is a common practice echoed the world over in systems designed for capital punishment, including distributing blanks to firing squads and the use of elaborate sequences of false switches for the delivery of lethal injections.
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Will Cady, SPIN, 30 Oct. 2024
Roberson’s innocence claim underscores an inherent risk of capital punishment: A potentially innocent person could be put to death.
—Dakin Andone, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
Their sentences were reduced to life in prison in 1977 after U.S. Supreme Court rulings related to capital punishment and Roberts was released on parole in 2008.
—CBS News, 15 Aug. 2024
Alcala received the death sentence at trial, but a series of appeals, reversals and subsequent trials left Alcala in prison until 2019, when California placed a moratorium on capital punishment.
—Barry Levitt, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
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Will Cady, SPIN, 30 Oct. 2024
Roberson’s innocence claim underscores an inherent risk of capital punishment: A potentially innocent person could be put to death.
—Dakin Andone, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
Their sentences were reduced to life in prison in 1977 after U.S. Supreme Court rulings related to capital punishment and Roberts was released on parole in 2008.
—CBS News, 15 Aug. 2024
Alcala received the death sentence at trial, but a series of appeals, reversals and subsequent trials left Alcala in prison until 2019, when California placed a moratorium on capital punishment.
—Barry Levitt, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Capital punishment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capital%20punishment. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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