Capital punishment
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capital-punishment-203-8448400
title:
Capital punishment
text:
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in such a manner is known as a death sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an execution. A prisoner who has been sentenced to death and awaits execution is condemned and is commonly referred to as being "on death row". Etymologically, the t
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encyclopedia
description:
Killing a person as punishment for allegedly committing a crime
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment
date created:
2001-08-18T04:57:41Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T15:25:52Z
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