capital punishment

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From the original meaning of capital (“relating to the head”); originally referring to executions by beheading or decapitating.

98 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: dënim me vdekje — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Arabic: إِعْدَام (ʔiʕdām) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Arabic: عُقُوبَة الْإِعْدَام (ʕuqūbat al-ʔiʕdām) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Arabic: عُقُوبَة الْمَوْت (ʕuqūbat al-mawt) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Armenian: մահապատիժ (mahapatiž) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Azerbaijani: edam — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Azerbaijani: ölüm cəzası — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Belarusian: смяро́тнае пакара́нне (smjarótnaje pakaránnje) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Belarusian: смяро́тная ка́ра (smjarótnaja kára) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Belarusian: найвышэ́йшая ме́ра пакара́ння (najvyšéjšaja mjéra pakaránnja) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Belarusian: найвышэ́йшая ме́ра ка́ры (najvyšéjšaja mjéra káry) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Bengali: মৃত্যুদণ্ড (mrittudonḍo) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Bulgarian: смъ́ртно наказа́ние (smǎ́rtno nakazánie) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Burmese: သေဒဏ် (sedan) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Catalan: pena capital — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Chinese Mandarin: 死刑 (sǐxíng) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Chinese Mandarin: 極刑 /极刑 (jíxíng) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Chinese Mandarin: 死罪 (sǐzuì) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Czech: trest smrti — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Danish: dødsstraf — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Dutch: doodstraf — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Esperanto: mortpuno — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Estonian: surmanuhtlus — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Faroese: deyðarevsing — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Finnish: kuolemanrangaistus — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• French: peine capitale — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• French: peine de mort — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Georgian: სასჯელის უმაღლესი ზომა (sasǯelis umaɣlesi zoma) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Georgian: სიკვდილით დასჯა (siḳvdilit dasǯa) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• German: Todesstrafe — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Greek: θανατική ποινή (thanatikí poiní) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Greek: έσχατη ποινή (éschati poiní) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Hindi: मृत्युदण्ड (mŕtyudaṇḍ) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Hindi: महादण्ड (mahādaṇḍ) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Hindi: सज़ा-ए-मौत (sazā-e-maut) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Hungarian: halálbüntetés — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Icelandic: dauðarefsing — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Indonesian: hukuman mati — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Irish: pionós báis — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Italian: pena capitale — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Japanese: 死刑 (shikei) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Japanese: 極刑 (kyokkei) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Japanese: 死罪 (shizai) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Kazakh: өлім жазасы (ölım jazasy) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Khmer: ទោសប្រហារជីវិត (tooh prɑɑhaa ciivɨt) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Korean: 사형 (sahyeong) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Kyrgyz: өлүм жазасы (ölüm jazası) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Lao: ປານະທັນ (pā na than) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Latin: punitio capitalis — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Latin: capitis poena — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Latvian: nāvessods — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Lithuanian: mirties bausmė — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Macedonian: смртна казна (smrtna kazna) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Malay: hukuman mati — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Norwegian Bokmål: dødsstraff — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Norwegian Nynorsk: dødsstraff — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Iranian Persian: اِعْدام (e'dâm) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Iranian Persian: مُجازاتِ اِعْدام (mojâzât-e e'dâm) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Polish: kara śmierci — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Polish: najwyższy wymiar kary — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Portuguese: pena de morte — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Portuguese: pena capital — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Romanian: pedeapsă capitală — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Romanian: pedeapsă cu moartea — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Russian: сме́ртная казнь (smértnaja kaznʹ) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Russian: вы́сшая ме́ра наказа́ния (výsšaja méra nakazánija) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Russian: вы́сшая ме́ра (výsšaja méra) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Russian: вы́шка (výška) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Russian: выша́к (vyšák) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Sanskrit: मृत्युदण्ड (mṛtyudaṇḍa) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Serbo-Croatian: смртна казна — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Serbo-Croatian: smrtna kazna — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Slovak: trest smrti — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Slovene: smrtna kazen — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Spanish: castigo capital — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Spanish: pena capital — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Spanish: pena mortal — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Spanish: último suplicio — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Swedish: dödsstraff — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Tagalog: parusang kamatayan — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Tajik: ҷазои қатл (jazo-yi qatl) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Tamil: மரணதண்டனை (maraṇataṇṭaṉai) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Tatar: үлем җәзасы (ülem cäzası) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Thai: โทษประหารชีวิต (tôot-bprà-hǎan-chii-wít) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Thai: ประหารชีวิต (bprà-hǎan-chii-wít) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Turkish: idam cezası — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Turkish: ölüm cezası — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Turkish: idam — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Ottoman Turkish: سیاست (siyâset) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Turkmen: ölüm jezasy — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Ukrainian: сме́ртна ка́ра (smértna kára) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Ukrainian: ви́ща мі́ра покара́ння (výšča míra pokaránnja) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Urdu: سَزائے مَوت (sazāe maut) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Uyghur: ئۆلۈم جازاسى (ölüm jazasi) — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Uzbek: o‘lim jazosi — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Vietnamese: tử hình — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Volapük: deadapönod — punishment by death — see also death penalty
• Welsh: dienyddio — punishment by death — see also death penalty