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What is a death penalty?

What is a death penalty? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law) A punishment in which the offender is put to death by the state.
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In this modern perspective, the death penalty expresses not the divine judgment on objective evil but rather the collective anger of the group.
He is outspoken in advocacy of the death penalty, an issue over which I have respectfully jousted with him twice.
Those people who are against the death penalty as a matter of principle are not eligible for jury service.
That gives a total of one hundred and six countries that have abolished the death penalty in practice.
They escaped the death penalty by only a couple of months as abolition took effect four weeks before their arrest.
Wearing another hat, he is also well known in these columns for his advocacy of the death penalty.

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