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execution

Homicide as capital punishment

EntityQ3966286

Subclass of: homicide
, institutional violence
, manner of death

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Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in such a manner is called a death sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence is an execution. A prisoner who has been sentenced to death and awaits execution is condemned and is commonly referred to as being "on death row". Etymologically, the term capital refers to execution by beheading, but there are various other methods of execution.

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Said to be the same as: execution method
Manifestation of: capital punishment
Practiced by: executioner
Participant: condemned person does not have characteristic: voluntariness
Has use: capital punishment

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