capital punishment

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Noun

capital punishment

1. The practice of putting a person to death as a punishment for a crime.

Translations

• French: peine capitale, peine de mort, punition capitale
• German: Todesstrafe
• Italian: pena capitale
• Portuguese: pena de morte, pena capital
• Russian: сме́ртная казнь
• Spanish: castigo capital, pena capital

Synonyms

• death penalty

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