Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment for a crime. The sentence ordering that an offender is to be punished in such a manner is known as a death sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an execution.

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Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground.

– Frederick Douglass

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Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment for a crime.

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Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment for a crime.

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