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PRONUNCIATION OF CAPITAL SENTENCE

capital sentence  [ˈkæpɪtəl ˈsentəns] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CAPITAL SENTENCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Capital sentence is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CAPITAL SENTENCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Capital punishment

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. The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis, literally "regarding the head". Capital punishment has, in the past, been practiced by most societies, as a punishment for criminals, and political or religious dissidents. Historically, the carrying out of the death sentence was often accompanied by torture, and executions were most often public. Currently 58 nations actively practice capital punishment, 98 countries have abolished it de jure for all crimes, 7 have abolished it for ordinary crimes only, and 35 have abolished it de facto. Amnesty International considers most countries abolitionist; overall, the organisation considers 140 countries to be abolitionist in law or practice. About 90% of all executions in the world take place in Asia.

Definition of capital sentence in the English dictionary

The definition of capital sentence in the dictionary is the punishment of death for a crime.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CAPITAL SENTENCE


acceptance
əkˈsɛptəns
acquaintance
əˈkweɪntəns
assistance
əˈsɪstəns
distance
ˈdɪstəns
existence
ɪɡˈzɪstəns
importance
ɪmˈpɔːtəns
instance
ˈɪnstəns
mid-sentence
ˌmɪdˈsentəns
nonsentence
ˌnɒnˈsentəns
preacquaintance
ˌpriːəˈkweɪntəns
presentence
priːˈsentəns
reacquaintance
ˌriːəˈkweɪntəns
repentance
rɪˈpɛntəns
resentence
riːˈsentəns
resistance
rɪˈzɪstəns
sentence
ˈsɛntəns
subsentence
ˈsʌbˌsɛntəns
substance
ˈsʌbstəns
unacquaintance
ˌʌnəˈkweɪntəns
unrepentance
ˌʌnrɪˈpɛntəns

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CAPITAL SENTENCE

capital expenditure
capital formation
capital gain
capital gains tax
capital gearing
capital goods
capital investment
capital levy
capital market
capital movement
capital offence
capital punishment
capital reserves
capital ship
capital stock
capital structure
capital sum
capital surplus
capital transactions
capital transfer tax

WORDS THAT END LIKE CAPITAL SENTENCE

at your convenience
coexistence
complex sentence
custodial sentence
death sentence
impotence
inadvertence
incompetence
inexistence
insistence
jail sentence
life sentence
persistence
potence
pretence
prison sentence
simple sentence
struggle for existence
subsistence
suspended sentence
topic sentence

Synonyms and antonyms of capital sentence in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «capital sentence» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CAPITAL SENTENCE

Find out the translation of capital sentence to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of capital sentence from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «capital sentence» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

资本一句
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pena de muerte
570 millions of speakers

English

capital sentence
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

राजधानी की सजा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الجملة العاصمة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

смертный приговор
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sentença de capital
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রাজধানী বাক্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

la peine capitale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hukuman modal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kapital Satz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

死刑宣告
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자본 문장
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ibukutha ukara
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

câu vốn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மூலதன தண்டனை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भांडवल वाक्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Cümle
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

condanna capitale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kapitał zdanie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

смертний вирок
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sentință de capital
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φράση του κεφαλαίου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kapitaal vonnis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kapital meningen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dødsdom
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of capital sentence

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CAPITAL SENTENCE»

The term «capital sentence» is used very little and occupies the 165.200 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CAPITAL SENTENCE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «capital sentence» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «capital sentence» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about capital sentence

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAPITAL SENTENCE»

Discover the use of capital sentence in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to capital sentence and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Report of the Capital Punishment Commission: Together with ...
Perhaps I ought to mention that the libel is usually restricted in those cases, (and I have seen it done even in cases of murder» and infanticide), before the verdict of the jury is taken, so that the jury knows that the capital sentence will not be ...
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into Capital Punishment, 1866
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Report of the Capital Punishment Commission: Together with ...
Perhaps I ought to mention <hat the libel is usually restricted in those cases, (and I have seen it done even in cases of murder and infanticide), before the verdict of the jury is taken, so that the jury knows that the capital sentence will not be ...
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Capital Punishment, 1866
3
Capital Punishment: A Bibliography with Indexes
Anyone researching this area of criminal justice will find this book an important tool as it offers easy access to the most relevant works about capital punishment.
C. Cliff, 2003
4
Mental Disorder and Criminal Law: Responsibility, Punishment ...
Similarly, the harm done to an innocent individual who is convicted of a capital crime and receives a capital sentence can be ameliorated if he is exonerated before the execution occurs. It is possible that both offenders can receive vindication ...
Robert Schopp, Richard L. Wiener, Brian H. Bornstein, 2008
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Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment in the United States, 2d ed.
Case Holding: A capital sentence is not constitutionally valid when the prosecutor leads the sentencing jury to believe that re- sponsibility for determining the appropriateness ofa death sen- tence rests not with the jury, but with the appellate ...
Louis J. Palmer, Jr., 2008
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Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia: Human Rights, ...
For the defence this means that a sentence of death can be prevented by convincing a single juror to oppose a capital sentence.17 Clarence Darrow, the most famous defence lawyer in American history, defended more than 100 persons in ...
Roger Hood, Surya Deva, 2013
7
Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia: Human Rights, ...
For the defence this means that a sentence of death can be prevented by convincing a single juror to oppose a capital sentence.17 Clarence Darrow, the most famous defence lawyer in American history, defended more than 100 persons in ...
Roger Hood, Surya Deva, 2013
8
Capital Punishment in America: A Balanced Examination
The nonavailability of corrective or modifying mechanisms with respect to an executed capital sentence underscores the need for individualized consideration as a constitutional requirement in imposing the death sentence. There is no perfect ...
Evan Mandery, 2011
9
Questioning Capital Punishment: Law, Policy, and Practice
... adeath sentence, when a new trial is ordered or a capital sentence is vacated on appeal and a life sentenceisthen imposed,45 the substantial monetary costs supporting a capital prosecution represent a wasted investment. On the other ...
James R. Acker, 2014
10
Correctional Populations in the United States, 1995
Capital sentence declared unconstitutional by State or U.S Supreme Court 8 . Highest year of educetlon completed at time of first lmprisonment for capital offense. oi O 7th grade or less 07 G 1st year of college 02 G 8th grade 08 □ 2nd year 01 ...
Barry Leonard, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CAPITAL SENTENCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term capital sentence is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Former Chief Justice of India YK Sabharwal dies at 73
He had said that while the statute prescribed for the capital sentence in the rarest of rare cases, he personally opined that capital punishment ... «The Indian Express, Jul 15»
2
DA won't retry Paul Smith's death penalty phase
... a 20-year-old Washington woman in 1988 before his death penalty sentence was reversed in April won't have his capital sentence retried. «Redding Record Searchlight, Jul 15»
3
New Challenge to Constitutionality of Capital Punishment
... 2) capital punishment is arbitrarily imposed; and 3) the delay between the imposition and execution of a capital sentence is unconscionably ... «Daily Signal, Jun 15»
4
US Supreme Court Judge Denounces Solitary Confinement
“In many cases, it is as if a judge had no choice but to say: 'In imposing this capital sentence, the court is well aware that during the many years ... «teleSUR English, Jun 15»
5
Why 50/50 quotas are half-arsed
Following that came a haughty encyclical from the great UCL itself, issued in the chilly language of a capital sentence. 'UCL was the first ... «Spiked, Jun 15»
6
Condemned to death, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev …
Seventeen of those counts carried a possible capital sentence and, on a sunny day in May, the same jury – tasked with deciding the ... «New Statesman, Jun 15»
7
Saudi Arabia : Supreme Court sentences Mr. Raif Badawi
The verdict cleared him from the capital sentence encompassed by the charge of apostasy. With the help of his lawyer, he appealed against his conviction. «FIDH, Jun 15»
8
'There are substantial issues' that could give the Boston Bomber his …
For example, jurors who oppose the death penalty will most likely acknowledge they wouldn't impose a capital sentence. But whether because ... «Business Insider, May 15»
9
Thousands of Israeli Arabs protest Morsi's death sentence …
The case, like any capital sentence, will be referred to Egypt's top religious authority, the Grand Mufti, for any opinion before any executions can ... «Haaretz, May 15»
10
Egypt court seeks death sentence for Muslim Brotherhood leader
The case, like any capital sentence, will be referred to Egypt's top religious authority, the Grand Mufti, for any opinion before any executions can ... «GMA News, May 15»

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