Death penalty
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A punishment in which the offender is put to death by the state.
"And if you would like one more fact about this worthy, he was responsible for an Act on the statute book abolishing the death penalty for cattle rustling."
- 2 putting a condemned person to death wordnet
Example
More examples"And if you would like one more fact about this worthy, he was responsible for an Act on the statute book abolishing the death penalty for cattle rustling."
Etymology
From death + penalty.