capital punishment

Questions about capital punishment

What does capital punishment mean?

capital punishment means "putting a condemned person to death".

What is another word for capital punishment?

Close synonyms include execution, executing, death penalty. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is capital punishment a common word?

capital punishment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.