How to Use capital punishment in a Sentence

capital punishment

noun
  • Trump said will no longer face capital punishment.
    — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • This law-and-order state of guns, God and capital punishment is awash in cannabis.
    — John Burnett, NPR, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The latter change is meant to allow the state to bring back capital punishment after more than a decade.
    — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • This is no ordinary crime and capital punishment, if a jury agrees, will be just.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Prison staff, in these final two days, are inspecting all rooms and equipment in the capital punishment unit.
    — Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 9 Dec. 2025
  • In his view, this causes capital punishment to violate due process.
    — Ron Matthias, The Mercury News, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Gilmore was the first inmate put to death after the Supreme Court struck down a ban on capital punishment.
    — Louie Estrada, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2023
  • In that case, 11 of the jurors voted for capital punishment, but one woman held out.
    — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Today, the politics of capital punishment also have begun to shift in some parts of the state.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The shooter's guilty plea on state charges may reduce the likelihood of capital punishment.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Suffice to say, lengthy imprisonment or even capital punishment would not be out of the question.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The 38-year-old is the fourth inmate put to death this year in Texas, the nation’s busiest capital punishment state.
    — Sean Murphy, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2024
  • In 1937, the state replaced hanging with lethal gas as the method of capital punishment.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Here's what to know about the history of capital punishment in Wisconsin and more.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2024
  • And in the decades after the Holocaust, Jews were presumed to be against capital punishment.
    — Tim Arango, New York Times, 13 May 2024
  • Despite knowing a bit about Hood’s work, the filmmakers didn’t know much about the capital punishment.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026
  • That strange harmony, made all the stranger for its place in a kitchen-sink tragedy about the myopia of capital punishment, rattles your soul from the inside out.
    — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Our Founders knew well that only capital punishment can bring justice and restore order in response to such evil.
    — Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Support for capital punishment has been worn away by an accumulation of forces.
    — Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
  • Most of the families of those who were killed supported the decision to seek capital punishment.
    — David Nakamura The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Advocates who oppose the death penalty bill say that capital punishment policies do not deter crime.
    — Trisha Mukherjee, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2024
  • What followed was the busiest period of executions in more than eight decades in a state that has long been a stronghold of capital punishment.
    — Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
  • Sign up Glossip’s case reads like a road map of the many flaws that afflict American capital punishment.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
  • While capital punishment is practiced by fewer jurisdictions, those that do it use it often.
    — The Week Us, TheWeek, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The fight against capital punishment stood at the core of his lifelong defense of human rights against oppression and cruelty.
    — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Black is the second death row inmate set for execution after the state resumed capital punishment this year.
    — Kelly Puente, The Tennessean, 8 July 2025
  • Trump has long advocated for broader use of capital punishment.
    — Nik Popli, Time, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Brown could face capital punishment if convicted.
    — Janelle Griffith, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
  • By law in South Korea, the leader of a rebellion can face a life sentence or capital punishment.
    — Hyung-Jin Kim The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 27 Jan. 2025
  • What is clear is that the legislation represents more than a policy choice about capital punishment.
    — Arie Perliger, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2026

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