Usually means: State-sanctioned execution for crimes.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word capital punishment:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. capital punishment: Merriam-Webster
  2. capital punishment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. capital punishment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. capital punishment: Collins English Dictionary
  5. capital punishment: Vocabulary.com
  6. capital-punishment: Wordnik
  7. capital punishment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. capital punishment: Wiktionary
  9. capital punishment: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. capital punishment: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. capital punishment: Dictionary.com
  12. Capital Punishment (album), Capital Punishment (film), Capital Punishment, Capital punishment (disambiguation), Capital punishment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. capital punishment: Rhymezone
  14. capital punishment: FreeDictionary.org
  15. capital punishment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. capital punishment: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. capital punishment: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. capital punishment: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. capital punishment: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Punishment, Capital, capital punishment: Legal dictionary
  6. capital punishment: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Punishment, Capital, capital punishment: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. capital punishment: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Capital Punishment: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (capital punishment)

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

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