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Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment for a crime, usually following an authorised, rule-governed process to conclude that the person is responsible for violating norms that warrant said punishment.
Aug 31, 2007 · Death Sentence: Directed by James Wan. With Kevin Bacon, Garrett Hedlund, Kelly Preston, Jordan Garrett. Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually comes to the disturbing conclusion that no length is too great when ...
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- Action, Crime, Thriller
- James Wan
- 2007-08-31
Death Sentence is a 2007 American vigilante action thriller film directed by James Wan and starring Kevin Bacon as Nick Hume, a man who takes the law into his own hands after his son is murdered by a gang member as an initiation ritual; Hume must then protect his family from the gang's resulting vengeance.
Dec 16, 2021 · Key Findings. Virginia becomes 23rd state, and first in the South, to abolish the death penalty. Seventh consecutive year with fewer than 30 executions and 50 new death sentences. New study finds one exoneration for every 8.3 executions.
May 21, 2024 · Capital punishment, execution of an offender sentenced to death after conviction by a court of law of a criminal offense. The term ‘death penalty’ is sometimes used interchangeably with ‘capital punishment,’ though imposition of the penalty is not always followed by execution.
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LII. Wex. capital punishment. Capital punishment, which is also known as the death penalty, is criminal punishment that takes the defendant’s life as the punishment for the defendant’s crime. The sentence ordering capital punishment is called the death sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence is called an execution.
noun. 1. : a sentence condemning a convicted defendant to death. 2. : an affliction or a situation that is considered to be fatal. also : a prognosis of death. Examples of death sentence in a Sentence. She received a death sentence for the murders.
