Synonyms for death penalty
death penal·ty

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1. death penaltynoun

   Synonyms:
   capital punishment

2. death penaltynoun

   A punishment in which the person who committed the offence is put to death by the state.

   Synonyms:
   capital punishment

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1. execution, executing, capital punishment, death penaltynoun

   putting a condemned person to death

   Synonyms:
   slaying, performance, carrying into action, execution, implementation, instruction execution, capital punishment, execution of instrument, executing, carrying out, murder, writ of execution

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1. Chrysti Shain:

   Fourteen states have shield laws that protect company identities in order to carry out death penalty orders. The department has not had execution drugs since 2013, when our last drugs expired. Also, drugs the department obtained from another country were seized by the US Drug Enforcement Administration in 2011.

2. The Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association:

   He has rejected the decisions of juries that wrestled with the facts and the law before unanimously imposing the death penalty, disregarded a long line of decisions made by Pennsylvania and federal judges, ignored the will of the Legislature, and ultimately turned his back on the silenced victims of cold-blooded killers.

3. Rufus Sims:

   I asked for my lawyer, they said I could not have one and I was not getting one, the police and investigators had me with the death penalty if I did not say I did it.

4. Kathryn Kase:

   If you make a mistake, we can undo it, you can’t do that with the death penalty.

5. Robert Seymour:

   He was willing to take controversial stands on a number of things as a member of our church -- being against the death penalty, affirming gays and lesbians, protesting nuclear proliferation, he was one who has been willing to speak out on issues that many might hesitate to take a stand on.