BBC Documentary about crime and the history of capital punishment (the death penalty).
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Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is state-sanctioned homicide as punishment for a crime. The sentence ordering that someone is punished with the death penalty is called a death sentence, and the act of carrying out such a sentence is known as an execution. A prisoner awaiting their execution is condemned and is “on death row”. Crimes that are punishable by death are known as capital crimes, capital offences or capital felonies.

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