capital punishment

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

capital punishment
    n 1: putting a condemned person to death [syn: {execution},
         {executing}, {capital punishment}, {death penalty}]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

29 Moby Thesaurus words for "capital punishment":
      beheading, burning, crucifixion, decapitation, decollation,
      defenestration, electrocution, execution, fusillade, garrote,
      gassing, hanging, hemlock, judicial murder, lapidation,
      necktie party, poisoning, shooting, stoning, strangling,
      strangulation, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows,
      the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope