death penalty

Questions about death penalty

What does death penalty mean?

death penalty means "putting a condemned person to death".

What is another word for death penalty?

Close synonyms include execution, executing, capital punishment. 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 death penalty a common word?

death penalty 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.