death penalty

English

Etymology

Compound of death +‎ penalty.

Noun

death penalty (plural death penalties)

1. (law) A punishment in which the offender is put to death by the state.

   Synonym: capital punishment

   • 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

• corporate death penalty

Translations

state punishment of death — see also capital punishment

• Arabic: إِعْدَام m (ʔiʕdām), عُقُوبَة اَلْإِعْدَام f (ʿuqūbat al-ʾiʿdām), عُقُوبَة اَلْمَوْت f (ʿuqūbat al-mawt)
• Armenian: մահապատիժ (hy) (mahapatiž)
• Catalan: pena de mort f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 死刑 (zh) (sǐxíng), 極刑／极刑 (zh) (jíxíng), 极刑 (zh) (jíxíng), 死罪 (zh) (sǐzuì)

• Czech: trest smrti m
• Danish: dødsstraf (da)
• Dutch: doodstraf (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: mortpuno
• Finnish: kuolemantuomio (fi), kuolemanrangaistus (fi)
• French: peine de mort (fr) f, peine capitale (fr) f, punition capitale f
• Galician: pena de morte f
• German: Todesstrafe (de) f
• Hindi: मृत्युदंड m (mŕtyudaṇḍ), महादण्द m (mahādaṇd), सज़ा-ए-मौत (sazā-e-maut)
• Hungarian: halálbüntetés (hu)
• Icelandic: dauðarefsing (is) f
• Irish: pionós báis m
• Italian: pena di morte (it) f, pena capitale f
• Japanese: 死刑 (ja) (しけい, shikei), 極刑 (きょっけい, kyokkei), 死罪 (ja) (しざい, shizai)
• Kazakh: өлім жазасы (ölım jazasy)
• Korean: 사형(死刑) (ko) (sahyeong)
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• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: cezayê mirinê, cezayê îdamê

• Latin: mortis poena f
• Latvian: nāvessods m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dødsstraff m

  Nynorsk: dødsstraff f

• Polish: kara śmierci (pl) f pl
• 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)
• Slovak: trest smrti m
• Slovene: smrtna kazen (sl) f
• Spanish: pena de muerte (es) f
• Swedish: dödsstraff (sv) n
• Tagalog: parusang kamatayan
• Turkish: idam cezası (tr), ölüm cezası (tr)
• Ukrainian: сме́ртна ка́ра f (smértna kára), ви́ща мі́ра покара́ння f (výšča míra pokaránnja)
• Vietnamese: án tử hình, tử hình (vi)
• Volapük: deadapönod
• Welsh: cosb marwolaeth f, cosb angau f

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