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capital punishment

noun as in death penalty

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For the first time since she joined the court in October, Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with liberal colleagues in a capital punishment case, saying federal law requires states to make accommodations for prisoners like Smith.

Northam, on the other hand, called for an end to capital punishment in his State of the Commonwealth address in January.

From Time

The repeal of capital punishment in Virginia takes our Commonwealth out of the business of determining life and death and ends a practice that a majority of Virginians oppose.

While democratic party leaders are worried about “slogans”, movement leaders say that defund applies to the system of capital punishment as well.

At the 2017 hearing, she noted that she had worked on death cases as a law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia, who supported capital punishment.

In 2011, Illinois extended the moratorium begun under Governor Ryan into a full ban on capital punishment.

Hickenlooper won election saying he supported capital punishment, but once in office changed his mind.

The council reinstated capital punishment earlier this year.

Most Pennsylvanians now support a moratorium on capital punishment until its efficacy can be determined.

Another week, another botched killing under the legal euphemism of capital punishment.

He spoke against capital punishment, against church-rates, against flogging in the army, and against the Irish Established Church.

A gallows was erected in the court, where the intractable underwent capital punishment as a warning to the rest.

Some, however, were in favour of capital punishment, in spite of the law Portia.

In consequence of this service, the commission recommended that his capital punishment be changed to imprisonment.

A decree condemning André de Beaumont to suffer capital punishment as being guilty of high treason.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to capital punishment, such as: death sentence, death warrant, execution, extreme penalty, and judicial murder.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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