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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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Psychologists can play a role in the juvenile death penalty debate in several ways.
He is outspoken in advocacy of the death penalty, an issue over which I have respectfully jousted with him twice.
The novel is about an innocent white man on death row, railroaded because officials needed to prove that the death penalty isn't racially biased.
Wearing another hat, he is also well known in these columns for his advocacy of the death penalty.
I've never proactively analysed the issue to see what my own stance is, possibly because it won't align with my abhorrence of the death penalty.
That gives a total of one hundred and six countries that have abolished the death penalty in practice.

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