capital punishment
Example Sentences
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The Court had in prior decades issued many emergency orders in election and capital punishment cases.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Prosecutors have yet to decide if they will seek capital punishment in the case.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
Nowhere has this been more clearly on display than in the world of capital punishment.
From Slate • Mar. 27, 2026
After many countries around the world abolished capital punishment, Israel is taking steps in the opposite direction.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2026
Behind his gentle presentations, Walter had become fiercely opposed to capital punishment, an issue he readily admitted he had never thought about until his own experience confronting it.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
