Penalty (vocabulary)
Make sure you understand and are able to translate the following words and word combinations:
To abolish, abolition, to execute, execution: shooting, electrocution , lethal gas, lethal injection, hanging, beheading, stoning; executioner, capital punishment:to ban/ abolish /reinstate; to confess to smth., to convict: convict, conviction, convicted murerer/ killer; the death penalty opponents, to denounce smth., offender, to shoot to death, theSupreme Court.
To abolish, abolition, to execute, execution: shooting, electrocution , lethal gas, lethal injection, hanging, beheading, stoning; executioner, capital punishment:to ban/ abolish /reinstate; to confess to smth., to convict: convict, conviction, convicted murerer/ killer; the death penalty opponents, to denounce smth., offender, to shoot to death, theSupreme Court.
Match the words with their definitions. Make up your own sentences with these word combinations.
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a) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison;
b) smth. that prevents from acting esp. by arousing doubt or fear; c) a punishment that a judge gives to someone who is guilty of a crime; d)a strong feeling of being sorry that you have done smth. very bad; e) permission for someone to leave prison, on the condition that they promise to behave well; f) a punishment for breaking a law, rule, or legal agreement; g) to formally ask a higher law court to change the decision of a lower court of law; h) the part of a prison in which those prisoners are kept who will be puniished by death; i) leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice; j) a period of time when a criminal must behave well and not commit any more crimes in order to avoid being sent to prison' k)to state the punishment for a guilty person,esp. a punishment of death or long imprisonment; l) to make a punishment less sever; m) to treat with mercy or leniency; refrain from killing, injuring, troubling, or distressing; save. |
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