* Capital punishment, the sentence of death

Capital punishment or the death penalty is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.

Vatican City abolished Capital punishment in Vatican City | its capital punishment statute in 1969.

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* 1969 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder ( but not for all crimes ) for a period of five years.

Capital punishment, actions taken against armed civilians during mob action or riot, and the deaths of noncombatants killed during attacks on military targets so long as the primary target is military, are not considered democide.

During the 19th century criminal law reform incrementally reduced the number of capital offences to five ( see Capital punishment in the United Kingdom ), and forfeiture for felony was abolished by the Forfeiture Act 1870.

* 1924 – Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.

Capital punishment was abolished in 1956, though the last person to be executed was in 1940 ( The current president Porfirio " Pepe " Lobo has tried to bring it back ).

Capital punishment in the Isle of Man was formally abolished by Tynwald in 1993 ( although the last execution on the island took place in 1872 ).

* 1976 – Capital punishment is abolished in Canada.

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* 1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.

* 1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.

* 1901 – Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U. S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.

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Australian Rules Football has had a presence in the city since 1999 and there are now three clubs in the Capital ; the Dublin Demons, the South Dublin Swans and the West Dublin Saints.

* Capital — This has many meanings, including the financial capital raised to operate and expand a business.

The city has been referred to as the world's most compact metropolis and the " Peace Capital.

Indianapolis, headquarters of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and often referred to as the " Amateur Sports Capital of the World " has hosted a number of collegiate basketball events.

" Marx responds to this in his third volume of Capital with his competition of capitals theory, a mathematical transformation that has been fiercely debated.

: The legal definition of insanity has not advanced significantly since 1843 ; in 1953 evidence was given to the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment that doctors even then regarded the legal definition to be obsolete and misleading.

The unicameral National Parliament has 109 seats, of which 20 are occupied by the governors of the 19 provinces and the National Capital District ( NCD ).

Of China's major airports, Beijing Capital International Airport ( PEK ), located northeast of central Beijing, has the greatest flow of passengers annually.

South Australia has boundaries with every other Australian state and territory except the Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania.

The Guns Platoon ( as it is known for short ) has the task of rendering military honors in the National Capital Region, including armed forces full-honors funerals ; state funerals ; presidential inaugurations ; full-honors wreath ceremonies at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery ; state arrivals at the White House and Pentagon, and retirement ceremonies for general-grade officers in the Military District of Washington, which are normally conducted at Fort Myer.

The primary reason for this is that gaming machines have been legal in the state of New South Wales since 1956 and over that time the number of machines has grown to 97, 103 ( at December 2010, including the Australian Capital Territory ).

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Wrocław was the host of EuroBasket 1963, FIBA EuroBasket 2009, UEFA Euro 2012 and will host 2014 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship and has been selected as a European Capital of Culture for 2016.

Lexington boasts of being " The Barbecue Capital of the World " and it has more than one BBQ restaurant per 1, 000 residents.

The brand was sold to Chrysler Corporation in 1928, passed through the short-lived DaimlerChrysler merger of 1998 – 2007 as part of the Chrysler Group, was a part of Chrysler LLC owned by Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity investment firm, and is now a part of the Chrysler Group LLC, which has an alliance with Fiat.

According to Sani Meo, the publisher of This Week in Palestine, " Capital or no capital, Ramallah has done well and Palestine is proud of its achievements .” Some Palestinians allege that Ramallah's prosperity is part of an Israeli " conspiracy " to make Ramallah the capital of a Palestinian state, instead of Jerusalem.

Allan, who has previously played four games for the Essendon Football Club in 1966 – 67, initiated the move, enabling him to be player coach of Eastlake in the Australian Capital Territory ( ACT ) football competition.

which is home to the annual Bourbon Festival held each September, and has been called the " Bourbon Capital of the World " by the Bardstown Tourism Commission and the Kentucky Bourbon Festival organizers who have registered the phrase as a trademark.

The Capital Gate tower has an 18-degree slope, almost five times more than the Pisa Tower ; however the Capital Gate tower has been deliberately engineered to slant.

Turku is European Capital of Culture in 2011, and the city council has approved numerous projects to boost the city's image in preparation for that status.