death penalty vs decapitation

death penalty and decapitation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
death penalty	Yes	No	No	No
decapitation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, decapitation is a hyponym of death penalty; that is, decapitation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than death penalty:

death penalty: putting a condemned person to death
decapitation: execution by cutting off the victim's head

Other hyponyms of death penalty include burning, burning at the stake, hanging, burning, electrocution, beheading, crucifixion.

death penalty (noun)	decapitation (noun)
putting a condemned person to death	killing by cutting off the head
	execution by cutting off the victim's head

death penalty vs decapitation

death penalty and decapitation both are nouns.

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