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capital punishment

legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime
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capital punishment

Summary

capital punishment is a manner of death[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of manner_of_death entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,898 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • capital punishment's instance of is recorded as manner of death[3].
  • capital punishment is a type of execution[4].
  • capital punishment is a type of sentence[5].
  • capital punishment is a type of cause of death[6].
  • capital punishment is a type of homicide[7].
  • capital punishment is a type of punishment[8].
  • capital punishment is a type of unnatural death[9].
  • capital punishment's Commons category is recorded as Death penalty[10].
  • capital punishment's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Capital punishment[11].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as The Catholic Encyclopedia[12].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedia of Global Justice[13].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[14].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[17].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[19].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[20].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as New World Encyclopedia[21].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as Red Blue Translator[22].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[23].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[24].
  • capital punishment's topic has template is recorded as Template:Capital punishment[25].
  • capital punishment's has effect is recorded as execution[26].
  • capital punishment's practiced by is recorded as executioner[27].

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Definition and Type

capital punishment's instance of is recorded as manner of death[3]. Recorded subclass of include execution[4], sentence[5], cause of death[6], homicide[7], punishment[8], and unnatural death[9].

Why It Matters

capital punishment ranks in the top 9% of manner_of_death entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,898 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

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  20. [22] ↑ . allsides.com. allsides.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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