Capital punishment
Across
- 3. latin phrase for the head
- 4. the principle that people receive that which they deserve
- 6. injection which is the most widely used method of execution in the United States
- 8. the crime prevention effects of the threat of punishment
- 11. the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution
- 12. process of obtaining military, political, commercial or other secret information by means of spies, secret agents, or illegal monitoring devices
- 13. execution where the person is usually shaved and strapped to a chair with belts that cross his chest, groin, legs, and arms
- 14. the act or process of executing
- 15. punishment imposed (as on a convicted criminal) for purposes of repayment or revenge for the wrong committed
Down
- 1. a member of a jury
- 2. the unjustified killing of one person by another
- 5. confinement, a form of imprisonment distinguished by living in single cells
- 7. the crime of betraying a nation or a sovereign by acts considered dangerous to security.
- 9. the execution of which philosofer was the most notorious execution in BC
- 10. VIII, under the reign of which king 72 000 people were executed
- 12. the act of showing or stating that someone or something is not guilty of something