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101capital punishment — n: death penalty Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. capital punishment …
102Capital punishment in Australia — Capital punishment was last used in Australia in 1967, when Ronald Ryan was hanged in Victoria, he was the last of 114 people executed in the 20th century and previous to his execution Queensland and New South Wales had already abolished the… …
103Capital punishment in California — Capital punishment is a legal form of punishment in the U.S. state of California. The first recorded execution in the area that is now California was on April 11, 1778 when four Native Americans were shot in San Diego County for conspiracy to… …
104capital punishment — noun putting a condemned person to death (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑execution, ↑executing, ↑death penalty • Derivationally related forms: ↑execute (for: ↑executing), ↑ …
105DIVINE PUNISHMENT — In a system of law based on divine revelation all punishment originally and ultimately derives from God. Even though human agencies may be entrusted with authority to inflict punishments in certain prescribed cases, God s own overriding punishing …
106Capital punishment in Sri Lanka — Capital punishment is legal in Sri Lanka. However, since June 23, 1976, there have been no executions, although death sentences were handed down continuously by the High and Supreme Courts for murder and drug trafficking convictions. These were… …
107Capital punishment in Italy — In Italy, the first pre unitarian state to abolish the death penalty was the Grand Duchy of Tuscany as of November 30, 1786, under the reign of Leopold II. It was the first civil state in the world to do away with torture and capital punishment.… …
108Capital punishment in Arkansas — Capital punishment is legal in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Since 1820, a total of 504 individuals have been executed. According to the Arkansas Department of Correction, as of May 24, 2006, a total of 36 men were under a sentence of death in the… …
109List of United States Supreme Court decisions on capital punishment — The U.S. Supreme Court has issued numerous rulings on the use of capital punishment (the death penalty). While some rulings applied very narrowly, perhaps to only one individual, other cases have had great influence over wide areas of procedure,… …
110(the) death penalty — the death penalty UK US noun legal legal punishment by death, usually for a serious crime such as murder. Killing people officially is called capital punishment . Thesaurus: punishment of being legally killedhyponym …
