Original sentence: Capital punishment, also referred to as the Death penalty, is the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offence or a capital crime.In some places this segregated areas is known as Death Row.In those jurisdictions that practice capital punishment, its use is usually restricted to a small number of criminal offences, principally, treason and murder, that is, the deliberate premeditated killing of another person.Prisoners who have been sentenced to death are usually kept segregated from other prisoners in a special part of the prison, pending their execution
Edited sentence: A distinction can be made between the words "kill," which means to take a life, and "murder," which means a killing that is punishable by law, and "execute," which is the punishment for a murder or other serious crime.Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, is a punitive sentence set after conviction for a criminal offense in which the convicted person is executed.In the US, individuals awaiting execution are said to be on Death Row