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Death penalty

noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    putting a condemned person to death wordnet

Etymology

From death + penalty.

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