death penalty

death penalty

n.

A sentence of punishment by execution.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

death penalty - putting a condemned person to death capital punishment, executing, execution corporal punishment - the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime burning at the stake, burning - execution by fire hanging - a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead; "in those days the hanging of criminals was a public entertainment" electrocution, burning - execution by electricity beheading, decapitation - execution by cutting off the victim's head crucifixion - the act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross

Translations

death penalty n → pena de muerte

death penalty death n → peine f de mort

death penalty death n → Todesstrafe f

death penalty n → pena di morte