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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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They escaped the death penalty by only a couple of months as abolition took effect four weeks before their arrest.
The film caused huge debate in Poland and was at least partially instrumental in the abolition of the death penalty.
Agroterrorism would be punishable by fines, imprisonment for up to life, and carry the death penalty in the most serious cases.
He is outspoken in advocacy of the death penalty, an issue over which I have respectfully jousted with him twice.
That gives a total of one hundred and six countries that have abolished the death penalty in practice.
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.

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