Capital Punishment A sentence of death.
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Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the killing of a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offense. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences.
Capital Punishment
(n) Capital punishment is the death sentence awarded for capital offences like crimes involving planned murder, multiple murders, repeated crimes, ...
Capital punishment
The most severe of all sentences: that of death. Also known as the death penalty, capital punishment has been banned in many coutries.
capital punishment - The death penalty.
capitalized interest - Accrued interest that is added to the principal balance of a loan while payments are not being made or are insufficient to cover both the principal and interest due.
capital punishment
n. execution (death) for a capital offense.
capital stock
n. the original amount paid by investors into a corporation for its issued stock.
Capital punishment
Called "capital" because it is the most extreme punishment that can be meted out. Also known as the death penalty, capital punishment has been banned in many countries.
capital punishment
The decision by a jury, in the second phase of a captital case, that the convicted defendant should be put to death.
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See also capital punishment and corporal punishment.
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The subject of capital punishment has occupied the attention of enlightened men for a long time, particularly since the middle of the last century; and none deserves to be more carefully investigated.
Death penalty Also known as capital punishment, this is the most severe form of corporal punishment as it is requires law enforcement officers to kill the offender.
The ecclesiastical courts did not inflict capital punishment except in rare cases, in which event those adjudged guilty were turned over to local secular authorities for enforcement of the sentence (see canon law).
The most important result of this rule is to enable a jury to prevent the infliction of capital punishment for murder.
Praemunire
An offence against the King or Parliament, in old English law, which led to serious penalties but not capital punishment.
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