death penalty

English

Etymology

Compound of death +‎ penalty.

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.

Derived terms

Translations

state punishment of death — see also capital punishment

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)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: dødsstraff m

Nynorsk: dødsstraff f
Persian:
Dari: اِعْدَام (fa) (i'dām)

Iranian Persian: اِعْدام (fa) (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
Swedish: dödsstraff (sv) n
Tagalog: parusang kamatayan
Tajik: ҷазои қатл (jazoyi 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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