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Definition of "death penalty" [death penalty]

  • A sentence of punishment by execution. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "death penalty" in a sentence
  • "Sinaitic Peninsula, they received from the Lord a code of legislation wherein the death penalty was prescribed for many offences."
  • "The death penalty was publicly inflicted by the guillotine in France, Belgium, Denmark,"
  • "Capital Litigation Trial Bar Committee capital punishment, see death penalty cases"