The taking of a person's life by the state as the legal penalty for criminal offense.
penalty involving loss of life, by shooting, hanging, lethal injection of other means; still imposed in some countries for serious crimes.
Punishing someone for a crime by killing them.
The imposition of a sentence of death.
The decision by a jury, in the second phase of a captital case, that the convicted defendant should be put to death.
The controversial right of the state to end a life by gassing, shooting, hanging, needling or quick-frying; believed effective as a deterrent to future crimes by the same individual. The common fate of incorrigible convicts and homeless pets.
Capital Punishment is rapper Big Pun's debut album from 1998. It is widely regarded by fans and critics alike as his finest work, and it was his only album released while he was living - he passed away due to a heart attack before the release of Yeeeah Baby. Thanks to the hit single "Still Not a Player," a remix of Pun's previous single "I'm Not a Player" and featuring R&B singer Joe in an interpolation of his own song, "I Don't Wanna Be a Player," Capital Punishment debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200 charts and became the first album by a solo Latino rap artist to reach the platinum sales mark.