A: The benefits of using biotechnology to genetically modify organisms include increased yield at reduced cost, lower prices, increased land use, reduced use of pesticides, and increased profits for companies that develop the plants.
For other uses, see Death penalty (disambiguation), Death sentence (disambiguation), Execute (disambiguation), and Execution (disambiguation). Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. The sentence that someone be punished in such a manner is referred to as a death sentence, whereas the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an execution.
punish. 1  to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal. 2  to inflict a penalty for (an offense, fault, etc.): to punish theft. 3  to handle severely or roughly, as in a fight. 4  to put to painful exertion, as a horse in racing.