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Abstract
The use of the death penalty for certain crimes.
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- Death Penalty
- Capital Punishments
- Death Penalties
- Penalties, Death
- Penalty, Death
- Punishment, Capital
- Punishments, Capital
- Electrocution, Judicial
- Gas Chamber Execution
- Hanging, Judicial
- Lethal Injection
- Chamber Execution, Gas
- Electrocutions, Judicial
- Execution, Gas Chamber
- Executions, Gas Chamber
- Gas Chamber Executions
- Hangings, Judicial
- Injection, Lethal
- Injections, Lethal
- Judicial Electrocution
- Judicial Electrocutions
- Judicial Hanging
- Judicial Hangings
- Lethal Injections
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5 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
entry term ELECTROCUTION, JUDICIAL: do not index also under the electricity aspect unless particularly discussed
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Capital Punishment. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D002203. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D002203
- Capital Punishment. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment
- Capital Punishment. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8454