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Penality

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Pe`nal´i`ty
n.1.The quality or state of being penal; liability to punishment.


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Bennet is poised to become Zimbabwe's deputy minister of agriculture, but Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president, refuses to swear him in until he is proven innocent of all charges, some of which that carry a possible death penality.
1995) (1977) ("The most important effect of the carceral system and of its extension well beyond legal imprisonment is that it succeeds in making the power to punish natural and legitimate, in lowering at least the threshold of tolerance to penality.
David Garland likewise argues that the evidence that we have to trace the "reception" of penality is "woefully inadequate"; Punishment and Modern Society, 253.
 
 
 
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