Capital punishment - WikipediaCapital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide,[1][2] is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.[3] The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in such a manner is known as a death sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an execution. A prisoner who has been sentenced to death
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