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English
Etymology
Compound of death + penalty.
Pronunciation
Noun
death penalty (plural death penalties)
- (law) A punishment in which the offender is put to death by the state.
- Synonyms: capital punishment, execution, Texas justice
2021 September 22, Stephen Roberts, “The writings on the wall...”, in RAIL, number 940, page 71:And if you would like one more fact about this worthy, he was responsible for an Act on the statute book abolishing the death penalty for cattle rustling.
2024 June 4, very tall bart, 0:09 from the start, in Jordan Peterson confesses, spoken by Joe Biden (Joe Biden):Joe Biden deserves the death penalty and Jonald Trump bad.
Derived terms
Translations
- Albanian: dënim me vdekje m
- Arabic: إِعْدَام m (ʔiʕdām), عُقُوبَة الْإِعْدَام f (ʕuqūbat al-ʔiʕdām), عُقُوبَة الْمَوْت f (ʕuqūbat al-mawt)
- Armenian: մահապատիժ (hy) (mahapatiž)
- Azerbaijani: ölüm cəzası, edam
- Belarusian: смяро́тнае пакара́нне n (smjarótnaje pakaránnje), смяро́тная ка́ра f (smjarótnaja kára)
- Bengali: মৃত্যুদণ্ড (bn) (mrittudonḍo)
- Bulgarian: смъ́ртно наказа́ние n (smǎ́rtno nakazánie)
- Burmese: သေဒဏ် (my) (sedan)
- Catalan: pena de mort f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 死刑 (zh) (sǐxíng), 極刑 / 极刑 (zh) (jíxíng), 死罪 (zh) (sǐzuì)
- Czech: trest smrti (cs) m
- Danish: dødsstraf (da)
- Dutch: doodstraf (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: mortpuno
- Finnish: kuolemanrangaistus (fi)
- French: peine de mort (fr) f, peine capitale (fr) f, punition capitale f
- Galician: pena de morte f
- Georgian: სიკვდილით დასჯა (siḳvdilit dasǯa), სასჯელის უმაღლესი ზომა (sasǯelis umaɣlesi zoma)
- German: Todesstrafe (de) f
- Hindi: मृत्युदंड m (mŕtyudaṇḍ), महादण्द m (mahādaṇd), सज़ा-ए-मौत f (sazā-e-maut)
- Hungarian: halálbüntetés (hu)
- Icelandic: dauðarefsing (is) f
- Indonesian: hukuman mati (id)
- Irish: pionós báis m
- Italian: pena di morte (it) f, pena capitale f
- Japanese: 死刑 (ja) (しけい, shikei), 極刑 (ja) (きょっけい, kyokkei), 死罪 (ja) (しざい, shizai)
- Kazakh: өлім жазасы (ölım jazasy)
- Khmer: ទោសប្រហារជីវិត (tooh prɑhaa ciivɨt)
- Korean: 사형(死刑) (ko) (sahyeong)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: cezayê mirinê, cezayê îdamê
- Kyrgyz: өлүм жазасы (ölüm jazası)
- Lao: ປານະທັນ (pā na than)
- Latin: mortis poena f
- Latvian: nāvessods m
- Lithuanian: mirties bausmė f
- Macedonian: смртна казна f (smrtna kazna)
- Malay: hukuman mati (ms)
- Maltese: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: dødsstraff m
- Nynorsk: dødsstraff f
- Pashto: please add this translation if you can
- Persian:
- Dari: اِعْدَام (i'dām)
- Iranian Persian: اِعْدام (e'dâm), مُجازاتِ اِعْدام (mojâzât-e e'dâm)
- Polish: kara śmierci (pl) f pl, najwyższy wymiar kary m
- Portuguese: pena de morte (pt) f
- Romanian: pedeapsă cu moartea f
- Russian: сме́ртная казнь (ru) f (smértnaja kaznʹ), вы́сшая ме́ра наказа́ния (ru) f (výsšaja méra nakazánija)
- Sanskrit: महादण्द m (mahādaṇda) (literally 'the greatest punishment'), मृत्युदण्ड (sa) m (mṛtyudaṇḍa)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: смртна казна f
- Roman: smrtna kazna f
- Slovak: trest smrti m
- Slovene: smrtna kazen (sl) f
- Spanish: pena de muerte (es) f, pena mortal f, pena capital (es) f, último suplicio m
- Swedish: dödsstraff (sv) n
- Tagalog: parusang kamatayan
- Tajik: ҷазои қатл (jazo-yi qatl)
- Tatar: үлем җәзасы (ülem cäzası)
- Thai: โทษประหารชีวิต (tôot-bprà-hǎan-chii-wít), ประหารชีวิต (th) (bprà-hǎan-chii-wít)
- Turkish: idam cezası (tr), ölüm cezası (tr)
- Turkmen: ölüm jezasy (tk)
- Ukrainian: сме́ртна ка́ра f (smértna kára), ви́ща мі́ра покара́ння f (výšča míra pokaránnja)
- Urdu: سَزائے مَوت f (sazāe maut)
- Uyghur: ئۆلۈم جازاسى (ölüm jazasi)
- Uzbek: o‘lim jazosi
- Vietnamese: án tử hình, tử hình (vi)
- Volapük: deadapönod
- Welsh: cosb marwolaeth f, cosb angau f
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