This documentary examines the historic use of the death penalty/capital punishment throughout the world.
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Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment for a crime. The sentence ordering for an offender is to be punished in such a manner is known as a death sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an execution.
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