Caipital puinishment

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Caipital puinishment, forbye kent as the daith penalty, is a govrenment sanctioned practice whaurbi a body is put tae daith bi the state as a puinishment for a crime. The sentence that someane be puinished in sic a manner is referred tae as a daith sentence, whauras the act o carryin oot the sentence is kent as an execution.