Capital punishment (Earth-5875)

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is killed by the state as a punishment for a crime.

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In the United Nations Space Command, the capital punishment is rare, but still used, upon the violation of important laws or the commitment of heinous crimes, such as the failure to comply to the Cole Protocol, insubordination, treachery, murder, rape, and child abuse.

The Covenant and some of its splinter factions also effectively enforced the death penalty; captured prisoners, once useless, are executed, incompetent or coward soldiers in the battlefield are brutally killed or fed to other starving soldiers, heretics and dissidents are assassinated, leaders responsible for colossal military failures, such as Fleetmaster Thel 'Vadamee, are publicly humiliated and later executed. Unlike the UNSC, the Covenant was more free in enforcing this punishment, more than often without any form trial, which were used as examples for others who tought about commiting the same crime.