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capital punishment

legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime
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capital punishment

Summary

capital punishment is a manner of death[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of manner_of_death entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (72,823 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • capital punishment's instance of is recorded as manner of death[3].
  • capital punishment is a type of execution[4].
  • capital punishment is a type of sentence[5].
  • capital punishment is a type of cause of death[6].
  • capital punishment is a type of homicide[7].
  • capital punishment is a type of punishment[8].
  • capital punishment is a type of unnatural death[9].
  • capital punishment is a type of divine retribution[10].
  • capital punishment's Commons category is recorded as Death penalty[11].
  • capital punishment's has cause is recorded as human overpopulation[12].
  • capital punishment's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Capital punishment[13].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as The Catholic Encyclopedia[14].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedia of Global Justice[15].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[16].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[19].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[20].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[21].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[22].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as New World Encyclopedia[23].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as Red Blue Translator[24].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[25].
  • capital punishment's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[26].
  • capital punishment's topic has template is recorded as Template:Capital punishment[27].

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Definition and Type

capital punishment's instance of is recorded as manner of death[3]. Recorded subclass of include execution[4], sentence[5], cause of death[6], homicide[7], punishment[8], and unnatural death[9].

Why It Matters

capital punishment ranks in the top 9% of manner_of_death entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (72,823 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 64 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8d ago · Charp238 · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → p/pena-de-muerte
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P14483]]: p/pena-de-muerte"
  2. 7w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-08-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    The oregon encyclopedia id → death_penalty
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P7691]]: death_penalty, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/83140543|Death penalty (#83140543)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/2968|The Oregon Enc"
  3. 7w ago · Wikimi-dhiann · 2026-07-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has cause → human overpopulation
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P828]]: [[Q331439]]"
  4. 9w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Claudius
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q295183, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  5. 9w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 4005
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P8590]]: 4005, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167476721|CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (#167476721)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encyclope"
  6. 11w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2zE3Ue
    Harper's tag → death-penalty, capital-punishment
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  7. 13w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → death-penalty, capital-punishment
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: death-penalty, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289919051|death penalty (#289919051)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's ta"
  8. 14w ago · Jane023 · 2026-06-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Practiced by → executioner, Scharfrichter
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P3095]]: [[Q16151247]]"
  9. 14w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0000141-trest-smrti
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0000141-trest-smrti, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  10. 18w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Rättvisa skipas.jpg, Electric Chair at Sing Sing-noborder.jpg, SQ Lethal Injection Room.jpg +4
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 13134, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  11. 19w ago · Uli Elch · 2026-05-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    Image → Rättvisa skipas.jpg, Electric Chair at Sing Sing-noborder.jpg, SQ Lethal Injection Room.jpg +4
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P18]]: De Bry 1c.JPG"
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