Examples of 'death penalty' in a sentence

Meaning of "death penalty"

The death penalty refers to the legal punishment of execution imposed on individuals who have committed specific crimes deemed by law to be deserving of the highest punishment. It is the sentence of death handed down by a court as a consequence of a serious offense
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  • A punishment in which the offender is put to death by the state.

How to use "death penalty" in a sentence

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Abolition of death penalty and prohibition of torture.
There is no place for the death penalty.
Death penalty from internal criminal law.
It recommended that the death penalty be abolished.
The death penalty and human dignity.
The imposition of the death penalty against.
Of the death penalty and life imprisonment.
Public opinion is in favour of the death penalty.
The capital or death penalty does not exist.
Death penalty has been restored in this country.
Under which the death penalty is applied.
The death penalty is not applied equally.
My support for the death penalty is unwavering.
The death penalty must not be mandatory.
He is not gonna get the death penalty.

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The death penalty in relation to juvenile offenders.
There was no international consensus on the death penalty.
The death penalty was thereby constitutionally abolished.
Such offences carry a mandatory death penalty.
The death penalty is commuted to life imprisonment.
Procedural safeguards pertaining to the death penalty.
The death penalty was to be replaced by life imprisonment.
Maybe even get the death penalty.
The death penalty was changed to life imprisonment.
We are against the abolition of the death penalty.
The death penalty was never applied to juveniles.
Argentina does not apply the death penalty.
The death penalty shall not exist.
A country which retains the death penalty.
There was no death penalty or sentencing to life imprisonment.
In no circumstances shall the death penalty be imposed.
The death penalty is an outdated mode of punishment.
Togo should abolish the death penalty.
The death penalty was carried out by hanging.
Massachusetts does not have the death penalty.
The death penalty was supported by public opinion.
Criminal procedure violations in a death penalty case.
The death penalty has been especially controversial.
I thought they abolished the death penalty.
The death penalty and corporal punishment.
Continued suspension of execution of the death penalty.
Number of death penalty executions per year.
You would be looking at the death penalty.
The death penalty is not applicable to minors.
An act of terrorism carries a federal death penalty.
No death penalty imposed is ever carried out.
It noted the existence of the death penalty.
The abolition of the death penalty in wartime was to be welcomed.
I do not agree with the death penalty.
The death penalty was increasingly applied.

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