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• death penalty — n: death as punishment for a crime – called also capital punishment; see also cruel and unusual punishment; gregg v. georgia in the important cases section ◇ The U.S. Supreme Court has held that the death penalty is not inherently violative of… …   Law dictionary

• Death Penalty (album) — Death Penalty Studio album by Witchfinder General Released 1982 …   Wikipedia

• Death penalty (disambiguation) — Death penalty may refer to: Capital punishment, the act of putting a person to death In sports Death penalty (NCAA), the nickname for the National Collegiate Athletic Association policy which forbids a school from fielding a certain team for a… …   Wikipedia

• death penalty — death .penalty n [singular] the legal punishment of death →↑capital punishment ▪ Three Britons are facing the death penalty for spying …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Death Penalty — • The infliction by due legal process of the penalty of death as a punishment for crime. Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006 …   Catholic encyclopedia

• death penalty — n. a sentence of death by execution: used with the * * * ➡ capital punishment * * * …   Universalium

• death penalty, the — death ,penalty, the noun * legal punishment by death, usually for a serious crime such as murder. Killing people officially is called capital punishment …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• death penalty — n. a sentence of death by execution: used with the …   English World dictionary

• death penalty — ► NOUN ▪ punishment by execution …   English terms dictionary

• Death Penalty Focus — Founded in 1988, Death Penalty Focus is a non profit organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment through grassroots organizing, research, and the dissemination of information about the death penalty and its alternatives.[1] With …   Wikipedia

• Death Penalty on Trial — ▪ 2003 by Andrew Rutherford       Along with the report in 2002 that the number of executions carried out worldwide in 2001 3,048 was more than double the 1,457 known to have taken place in 2000 came the news that more than 90% of them had… …   Universalium