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Capital punishment or the death penalty is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. The judicial decree that someone be punished in this manner is a death sentence while the actual enforcement is an execution. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offenses.

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