Synonyms for capital punishment

Grammar : Noun

Définition of capital punishment

noun death penalty

Example sentences :

It is most likely that the court will not recur to capital punishment again.
Extract from : « Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I (of II) » by Charles James Lever

Hanging was the usual mode of capital punishment with the Anglo-Saxons.
Extract from : « Bygone Punishments » by William Andrews

Farel expressly says, that "Servetus deserved a capital punishment."
Extract from : « Fox's Book of Martyrs » by John Foxe

Capital punishment was reserved for traitors, actual and potential.
Extract from : « The Witch-cult in Western Europe » by Margaret Alice Murray

The capital punishment of poor Nat Cringle was as nothing to this.
Extract from : « Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks » by Bracebridge Hemyng

Capital Punishment is a relic of barbarism which society has not yet outgrown.
Extract from : « Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 » by Various

There may be divergences, as in reference to the non-infliction of capital punishment.
Extract from : « The Fixed Period » by Anthony Trollope

Imprisonment, capital punishment and war are yet crude in their methods.
Extract from : « Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 » by Various

Such in our time is capital punishment and all punishment in general.
Extract from : « Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 » by Various

Pertaining to the head, as, capital punishment, which involves the forfeiture of the head.
Extract from : « Orthography » by Elmer W. Cavins

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