Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Capital Punishment

The use of the death penalty for certain crimes.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

The use of the death penalty for certain crimes.

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Synonyms

24 entry terms
  • 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

  1. National Library of Medicine. Capital Punishment. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D002203. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D002203
  2. Capital Punishment. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment
  3. Capital Punishment. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8454