Death penalty

The 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, and the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an.

By tradition, death by the severing of the head is a privilege reserved for. Simple folk may be executed in a variety of interesting ways, but is most common. In most jurisdictions, s cannot inflict the death penalty, but must bind over the convicted criminal to a for punishment. In some jurisdictions, the death penalty is, by custom, only imposed by s.

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