Antonyms for capital punishmentcap·i·tal pun·ish·ment

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1. execution, executing, capital punishment, death penaltynoun

   putting a condemned person to death

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

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1. capital punishment

   Synonyms:
   Punishment by death for a crime

How to use capital punishment in a sentence?

1. Ryan Pack:

   Capital punishment: Capital punishment has no role in a perfect world. But since the world we live in is far from perfect I say reserve it only for the offenders who justly deserve it. We as humanity need to strive for and accomplish a just and peaceful world so that way we can abolish capital punishment altogether.

2. Scott Surovell:

   I can not think of anything that's more awful, unspeakable and wrong for a government to do than to use its power to execute somebody who didn't commit the crime they're accused of, the problem with capital punishment is that once it's inflicted you can't take it back -- can't be corrected.

3. Albert Camus:

   What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

4. Josh Shapiro:

   That is the end of capital punishment in this state. When you execute an innocent man, knowingly execute an innocent man, you know there will be no more capital punishment in this state and possibly anywhere else in this country.

5. Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe:

   These amendments deliver a valid path forward to continue VA's capital punishment policy, our citizens share my concerns and do not wish to be forced into using this terrible form of punishment.

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