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    The death penalty is a government sanctioned practice where a person is killed by the state as punishment for a crime. Crimes punishable by death, known as capital crimes, include murder, terrorism, treason, genocide, and drug trafficking, depending on the country. If sentenced to death, the criminal is put to death by the state in a legal process called an execution.

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    The death penalty is a government sanctioned practice where a person is killed by the state as punishment for a crime. Crimes punishable by death, known as capital crimes, include murder, terrorism, treason, genocide, and drug trafficking, depending on the country. If sentenced to death, the criminal is put to death by the state in a legal process called an execution.

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    The death penalty is a government sanctioned practice where a person is killed by the state as punishment for a crime. Crimes punishable by death, known as capital crimes, include murder, terrorism, treason, genocide, and drug trafficking, depending on the country. If sentenced to death, the criminal is put to death by the state in a legal process called an execution.

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    The death penalty is a government sanctioned practice where a person is killed by the state as punishment for a crime. Crimes punishable by death, known as capital crimes, include murder, terrorism, treason, genocide, and drug trafficking, depending on the country. If sentenced to death, the criminal is put to death by the state in a legal process called an execution.

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    death penalty,

    is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is killed by the state as a


    punishment for a crime. The sentence that someone be punished in such a manner
    is referred to as a death sentence, whereas the act of carrying out the sentence is
    known as an execution. Crimes that are punishable by death are known as capital
    crimes, capital offences or capital felonies, and they commonly include serious
    offences such as murder, mass murder, aggravated cases of rape, child rape, child
    sexual abuse, terrorism, treason, espionage, offences against the State, such as
    attempting to overthrow government, piracy, aircraft hijacking, drug trafficking
    and drug dealing, war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, and in some
    cases, the most serious acts of recidivism, aggravated robbery, and kidnapping, but
    may include a wide range of offences depending on a country. Etymologically, the
    term capital (lit. "of the head", derived via the Latin capitalis from caput, "head")
    in this context alluded to execution by beheading.

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