| NOUN | act | capital punishment, execution, executing, death penalty | putting a condemned person to death |
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| Meaning | putting a condemned person to death. | |
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| Synonyms | execution, executing, death penalty | |
| Narrower | burning, burning at the stake | execution by fire |
| crucifixion | The act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world | |
| decapitation, beheading | execution by cutting off the victim's head | |
| electrocution, burning | execution by electricity | |
| hanging | A form of capital punishment | |
| Broader | corporal punishment | The infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime |
| Spanish | castigo capital, ejecución, pena capital, pena de muerte | |
| Catalan | pena capital, pena de mort | |
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