Death penalty may refer to:
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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 b ...
, the act of the state putting a person to death
Sports
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Death penalty (NCAA)
The death penalty is the popular term for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s power to ban a school from competing in a sport for at least one year. This colloquial term compares it with capital punishment since it is the harshe ...
, the nickname for American college athletics policy which forbids a school from fielding a certain team
Entertainment
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''Death Penalty'' (album), a 1982 album by the heavy-metal band Witchfinder General
* "Death Penalty", the title track from the aforementioned
Witchfinder General
Matthew Hopkins ( 1620 – 12 August 1647) was an English witch-hunter whose career flourished during the English Civil War. He was mainly active in East Anglia and claimed to hold the office of Witchfinder General, although that titl ...
album
*''Death Penalty'' (film), a 1980 television film starring
Colleen Dewhurst
Colleen Rose Dewhurst (June 3, 1924 – August 22, 1991) was a Canadian-American actress mostly known for theatre roles. She was a renowned interpreter of the works of Eugene O'Neill on the stage, and her career also encompassed film, early dra ...
See also
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Capital punishment (disambiguation)
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