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death penalties

death penalties is the plural of death penalty.

Meaning of death penalty

Noun

the death penalty (plural death penalties)

  1. A punishment in which the offender is put to death by the state.
    • And if you would like one more fact about this worthy, he was responsible for an Act on the statute book abolishing the death penalty for cattle rustling.2021 September 22, Stephen Roberts, “The writings on the wall...”, in RAIL, number 940, page 71

Questions about death penalties

What is death penalties the plural of?
Death penalties is the plural of death penalty.

Words near death penalties in the dictionary

  1. death of despair
  2. death of the author
  3. death on
  4. death panel
  5. death panels
  6. death penalties
  7. death penalty
  8. death pennies
  9. death penny
  10. death pile
  11. death piles

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