capital punishment

capital punishment — punishment by death for a crime; death penalty. [1575 85] * * * or death penalty Execution of an offender sentenced to death after conviction by a court of law of a criminal offense. Capital punishment for murder, treason, arson, and rape was… …   Universalium

capital punishment — noun dealing death, death, death sentence, execution, extreme penalty, judicial murder, killing associated concepts: cruel and unusual punishment Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 cap …   Law dictionary

Capital Punishment — • The infliction by due legal process of the penalty of death as a punishment for crime. Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006 …   Catholic encyclopedia

capital punishment — смертная казнь, высшая мера наказания …   Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Capital punishment — Death penalty and Death sentence redirect here. For other uses, see Death penalty (disambiguation) and Death sentence (disambiguation). Execution and Execute redirect here. For other uses, see Execution (disambiguation) and Execute… …   Wikipedia

capital punishment — смертная казнь, высшая мера наказания to impose, introduce capital punishment ≈ ввести смертную казнь to abolish capital punishment ≈ отменить смертную казнь …   Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь

capital punishment — noun punishment by death …   Wiktionary

capital punishment — смертная казнь; наказание индивида, обвиненного в тяжких преступлениях, осуществляемое от имени государства …   Англо-русский словарь по социологии

capital punishment — 1) Общая лексика: смертная казнь, высшая мера наказания 2) юр.Н.П. казнь …   Универсальный англо-русский словарь

capital punishment — [ kæpɪtl pʌnɪʃmənt] смертная казнь, высшая мера наказания …   Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь