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Capital punishment

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 called a death sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence is an execution. A prisoner who has…

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Capital punishment

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related to Other offences · 46
Capital punishment → Afghanistan, Aircraft, Algeria, Arms Offences Act, Arson, Bangladesh, Blasphemy, Brunei, China, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hirabah, Homosexuality, Human, Idaho, India, Iran, Kenya, Kidnapping, Libya
related to Bibliography · 32
Capital punishment → ABC-CLIO, Anesthesiology, Available, Borg, Cambridge, Cambridge Books Online, Cambridge University Press, CBO9780511489273, CBO9780511841361, Clinical Ethics, France, French, Gail, In, ISBN, Jean-Marie Carbasse, Kronenwetter, La, Marian, Michael
related to China · 17
Capital punishment → An Lushan Rebellion, At, Decapitation, Despite, Emperor Xuanzong, However, Lingnan, Strangulation, Tang, Tang Chinese, The, There, This, Thus, Under Xuanzong, When, Xuanzong
related to Contemporary era · 17
Capital punishment → Abolition, Africa, Americas, Anglosphere, Asia, By, China, EU, European, India, Japan, Michigan, Notably, Oceanian, The, The United States, United States
related to Ancient Rome · 15
Capital punishment → BC, Catiline's, Cicero, December, During, Julius Caesar, Late Republic, Roman, Roman Senate, Rome, Senate, Senatus, The, The Twelve Tables, This
related to Human rights · 15
Capital punishment → Abolitionists, Albert Camus, Amnesty International, As John Stuart Mill, Blackstone, Death, Guillotine, Human, Human Rights, In, Locke, Parliament, Rebellion, Reflections, Resistance
related to Modern era · 15
Capital punishment → Beccaria, Bloody Code, Cesare Beccaria, Charles Dickens, In, In England, Jeremy Bentham, Karl Marx, Official, On Crimes, Parliament, Punishments, Rational, The, These
related to 20th century · 13
Capital punishment → Also, Anti-Soviet, China, Cultural Revolution, Great Purge, In, In Nazi Germany, Mao Zedong, One, Partly, Robert Conquest, Soviet, Various
related to Ancient Greece · 11
Capital punishment → BC, Draco, Draco's, In, Plato, Protagoras, So, Solon, The, The Athenian, The Romans
related to Atrocity crimes · 11
Capital punishment → Atrocity, Death, ICTR, ICTY, International Criminal Court, International Criminal Tribunal, Nuremberg Trials, Rwanda, This, Tokyo Trials, Yugoslavia

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treasoninstance ofalong with crimes against the state0.80text
espionageinstance ofalong with crimes against the state0.80text
seditioninstance ofalong with crimes against the state0.80text
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war crimesinstance ofwhile maintaining it for special circumstances0.80text
Hududinstance ofas do religious crimes0.80text
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cowardiceinstance ofcourts-martial have imposed death sentences for offences0.80text

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