capital punishment

NOUN
  1. putting a condemned person to death
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How To Use capital punishment In A Sentence

  • Capital punishment is a highly emotive issue.
  • If the anti-abortionist can show that the foetus is a person, then ‘you mustn't kill people’ becomes a good reason not to allow abortion - although it's also, on the face of it, a good reason not to allow capital punishment.
  • Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1976, seven states have executed a combined twenty-two juvenile offenders nationwide.
  • They seriously believe that capital punishment is a deterrent.
  • But it does not matter where issues of capital punishment and deterrence are concerned.
  • I don't really believe in capital punishment, I'm just playing the devil's advocate.
  • They seriously believe that capital punishment is a deterrent.
  • The governor's repeated claim that he will raise the issue of capital punishment during the 2004 session may be no more than a bone tossed to his more rabid supporters.
  • So Scalia's insistence that the Catholic Church does not consider capital punishment immoral rests on the word "practically" in the Church's catechism. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • Should Bermuda bring back hanging (or any other form of capital punishment)?
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