committal vs death penalty

committal

• The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment. 

• The act of entrusting something to someone. 

• The act of perpetrating an offence. 

• The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation. 

• Of or relating to commitment. 

• Of or relating to a committee. 

death penalty

• A punishment in which the offender is put to death by the state.