Usually means: State-sanctioned execution for crimes.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. the death penalty: Merriam-Webster
  2. death penalty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. death penalty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. death penalty, the death penalty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. death penalty: Vocabulary.com
  6. death-penalty: Wordnik
  7. the death penalty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. death penalty: Wiktionary
  9. death penalty: Dictionary.com
  10. Death Penalty (album), Death Penalty, Death-penalty, Death penalty (NCAA), Death penalty (disambiguation), Death penalty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. death penalty: Rhymezone
  12. death penalty: FreeDictionary.org
  13. death penalty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. death penalty: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. death penalty: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. death penalty: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Death-penalty, The death penalty, death penalty: Legal dictionary
  6. death penalty: Law.com Dictionary
  7. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Death-penalty, The death penalty, death penalty: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (death penalty)

▸ noun:  (law) A punishment in which the offender is put to death by the state.

Similar:
capital punishment, execution, executing, death sentence, capital crime, death, needle, capital offense, condemned, Texas justice, more...

Types:
lethal injection, electrocution, gas chamber, hanging, firing squad, more...

Phrases:
the death penalty, usenet death penalty, Disneyland with the Death Penalty, Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Death Penalty Information Center, more...

Adjectives:
third-degree, second-degree, crimogenic, self-inflicted, liberticide, self-destructive, hit, killer, deceased, annihilationist, subversionary

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Similar:
capital punishment, execution, executing, death sentence, capital crime, death, needle, capital offense, condemned, Texas justice, more...

Types:
lethal injection, electrocution, gas chamber, hanging, firing squad, more...

Phrases:
the death penalty, usenet death penalty, Disneyland with the Death Penalty, Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Death Penalty Information Center, more...

Adjectives:
third-degree, second-degree, crimogenic, self-inflicted, liberticide, self-destructive, hit, killer, deceased, annihilationist, subversionary



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