capital punishment
nounEtymology
From the original meaning of capital (“relating to the head”); originally referring to executions by beheading or decapitating.
Definitions
The practice of putting a person to death as a punishment for a crime.
The neighborhood
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No curated loop yet for capital punishment. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA