Being executed
Death penalty and being executed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Death penalty" instead a noun phrase "Being executed".
Death penalty
Death penalty noun - Putting a condemned person to death.
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Synonyms for Death penalty
Being executed and death penalty are semantically related. You can use "Being executed" instead a noun phrase "Death penalty".
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- One of the many, many arguments thrown about between pro-death penalty / anti-death penalty groups is the theory that spending the remainder of one's life in prison is a harsher sentence than being executed.
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