What is another word for death penalty?

Pronunciation: [dˈɛθ pˈɛnə͡lti] (IPA)

The death penalty has been a topical issue for many years. Many people believe in the punishment, while many others are totally against it. As the world becomes more and more progressive, people are looking for alternatives ways to refer to the death penalty. Some of the synonyms include capital punishment, the ultimate penalty, death row, the execution, and the death sentence. Although these terms have different meanings, they all refer to the act of taking one's life as a form of punishment. As advocates debate the effectiveness and morality of the death penalty, these different terms are used to promote and articulate different views on its use.

What are the hypernyms for Death penalty?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Death penalty

  • Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
    Yasser Arafat
  • I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
    Gary Bauer
  • Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
    Pope Benedict XVI
  • For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
    Albert Camus
  • I am against the death penalty.
    Andrew Cuomo

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