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Death Sentence (comics)
Death sentence usually refers generally to capital punishment. It may also refer to: *Death Sentence (short story), "Death Sentence" (short story), a 1943 short story by Isaac Asimov *''Death Sentence'', a 1948 French novella (''L'Arrêt du mort'') by Maurice Blanchot (translated by Lydia Davis, 1998) *Death Sentence (1968 film), ''Death Sentence'' (1968 film), a 1968 Italian film *Death Sentence (1974 film), ''Death Sentence'' (1974 film), 1974 television film starring Nick Nolte *Death Sentence (novel), ''Death Sentence'' (novel), a 1975 novel by Brian Garfield **Death Sentence (2007 film), ''Death Sentence'' (2007 film), a 2007 film adaptation of the Brian Garfield novel *Death Sentence (band), a Canadian punk band formed in 1984 *''Mrityudand'' or ''The Death Sentence'', a 1997 Indian film *''Death Sentence: The True Story of Velma Barfield's Life, Crimes, and Execution'', a 1998 non-fiction book by Jerry Bledsoe *''Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language'', a 2003 book by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capital Punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence (law), sentence ordering that an offender be punished in such a manner is called a death sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence is an execution. A prisoner who has been sentenced to death and awaits execution is ''condemned'' and is commonly referred to as being "on death row". Etymologically, the term ''capital'' (, derived via the Latin ' from ', "head") refers to execution by Decapitation, beheading, but executions are carried out by List of methods of capital punishment, many methods, including hanging, Execution by shooting, shooting, lethal injection, stoning, Electric chair, electrocution, and Gas chamber, gassing. Crimes that are punishable by death are known as ''capital crimes'', ''capital offences'', or ''capital felonies'', and vary depending on the jurisdic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
