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Capital punishment in the United States
In the
United States
,
capital punishment
—also called the
death penalty
—is a legal sentence in 31 states and the federal civilian and military legal systems. Its applications are limited by the
Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution
to aggravated murders committed by
mentally competent
adults.
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