capital punishment

Noun

Meaning

putting a condemned person to death

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

execution death penalty executing gibbet gallows drop killing shooting punishment assassination chair rope hanging crucifixion guillotine

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Antonyms

compassion clemency absolution commutation condonation divine bounty

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Hypernyms

corporal punishment

Hyponyms

burning hanging crucifixion beheading decapitation electrocution

Examples

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified. Benjamin Tucker

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder? Albert Camus

Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years? Anton Chekhov

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. Orrin Hatch

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders. Albert Camus

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again. Bill Maher

Close letter words and terms

capital proliferation capital property capital provider capital raise capital realization capital reduction