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Definition of the death penalty noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1 Σεπ 2016 · Capital punishment, also known as death penalty, is a government sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. Since at present 58 countries ...
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There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun death penalty. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
1 Μαΐ 2016 · Death was the penalty for a wide range of offenses, not only murder, but property crimes and moral misconduct as well. Death came in a variety of forms: hanging, breaking on the wheel, clubbing, burning, the sword or the axe, drawing and quartering.
Death row. This bleak sobriquet evokes correspondingly foreboding imagery: adjoining cells made of bars of cold steel, ensconced deep within prison walls, inhabited by an assemblage of doomed offenders who mark the relentless passage of time that alone separates them from death by execution.
Professor Hoyle and Professor Hood's 5th edition of 'The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective' (OUP, 2015) provides legal and social scientific analysis of the movement towards global abolition of the death penalty and of its administration in retentionist countries.
