capital punishment

2 definitions found

capital punishment - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  capital punishment
      n 1: putting a condemned person to death [syn: execution,
           executing, capital punishment, death penalty]

capital punishment - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "capital punishment":
     beheading, burning, crucifixion, decapitation, decollation,
     defenestration, electrocution, execution, fusillade, garrote,
     gassing, hanging, hemlock, judicial murder, lapidation,
     necktie party, poisoning, shooting, stoning, strangling,
     strangulation, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows,
     the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope