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Capital punishment in Japan
Capital punishment in Japan (死刑) is a legal penalty for murder, executed by hanging in secrecy with same-morning notice. Japan and the US are the only G7 retentionists; 718 postwar executions; Hakamada's 2024 acquittal fueled abolition calls.
Capital punishment in Judaism
Capital punishment in Judaism, also called Judaism and capital punishment, is the halakhic law under which courts could impose death, wrapped in procedural requirements so strict that execution was nearly impossible.
Capital punishment in Pennsylvania
Capital punishment in Pennsylvania: death penalty for first-degree murder, still law but under a governor's moratorium since 2015; 103 on death row, 3 executions since 1976, 13 exonerations.
Capital punishment in Singapore
Capital punishment in Singapore: mandatory hanging for murder and drug trafficking above thresholds (15 g heroin, 500 g cannabis), with 2012 courier discretion, rising executions (17 in 2025, 19 in 2026), and dismissed constitutional challenges.
Capital punishment in Texas
Capital punishment in Texas: the state's death penalty system, from colonial-era hangings through the electric chair and lethal injection. Texas leads the U.S. in modern executions, peaking at 40 in 2000, then declining after the 2005 life-without-parole law.
Capital punishment in the Philippines
Capital punishment in the Philippines, abolished by Republic Act 9346 on June 24, 2006, was restored 1993 to 2006 under RA 7659; the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR was ratified in 2007, and revival bills remain pending.
Capital punishment in the United Kingdom
Capital punishment in the UK was abolished for murder by the 1965 Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act, made permanent in 1969, and fully abolished for all remaining crimes in 1998; the government now opposes the death penalty in all circumstances.
Capital punishment in the United States
Capital punishment in the United States, also called the death penalty, is legal in 27 states, the federal government, and the military, with executions resumed since 1977.
Capital requirement
A capital requirement, also called regulatory capital or minimum capital requirement, obliges a bank to hold a minimum amount of its own capital as a buffer against losses.
Capital Requirements Directive
The Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) is the EU directive governing how banks are authorized, governed, and supervised, working alongside the Capital Requirements Regulation on capital rules.
Capital Rx (now Judi Health)
Capital Rx, now Judi Health, is a New York-based technology-driven pharmacy benefit manager founded in 2017 and rebranded in September 2025 after a $400 million funding round.
Capital ship
Capital ship: the most important warship of a fleet, held successively by the ship of the line, the battleship and battlecruiser, and, since World War II, the aircraft carrier, subject to interwar treaty tonnage and gun-caliber limits.
Capital structure
Capital structure is the mix of debt and equity a firm uses to finance its assets; the optimal mix is often defined as the one minimizing the weighted average cost of capital.
Capital taxation
Capital taxation is the taxation of income from capital, such as corporate profits, capital gains, property, and wealth, raising 10 to 30 percent of taxes in OECD countries.
Capital Today (venture capital firm)
Capital Today (今日资本) is a Hong Kong-based venture capital and growth equity firm founded in 2005 by Kathy Xu, known for early bets on JD.com, Meituan, and Ctrip.
Capital-output ratio
The capital-output ratio (K/Y) is the value of an economy's capital stock divided by its annual output, a measure central to growth accounting, investment planning, and debates about investment efficiency.
CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust
CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust (CICT) is a Singapore-listed commercial real estate investment trust formed in 2020 by merging CapitaLand Mall Trust and CapitaLand Commercial Trust.
CapitalBio Medulab (Boao Jingdian)
CapitalBio Medulab, known in China as Boao Jingdian (博奥晶典), is a Beijing-based genetic-testing and biochip company incorporated in 2012 as the industrialization platform of CapitalBio Corporation.
Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system in which private actors own productive property for profit, workers earn wages, and market prices allocate capital and labor; it emerged in early modern Europe.
Capitalism as Religion
Capitalism as religion (Kapitalismus als Religion) is the thesis from Walter Benjamin's unpublished 1921 fragment that capitalism is a religion, generating guilt and debt without offering atonement.
Capitalist mode of production (Marxist theory)
Capitalist mode of production (Marxist theory): Marx's concept, from the Grundrisse and Capital, defining capitalism as separated producers selling wage labor to owners of the means of production, with surplus value, primitive accumulation, and a tendentially falling rate of profit.
Capitalist Realism
Capitalist realism is Mark Fisher's concept from his 2009 book Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, naming the post-1989 sense that capitalism is the only viable system and no alternative can be imagined, with features such as business ontology and reflexive impotence.
Capitalization
Capitalization (capitalisation) is the use of capital letters in writing. Covers its functions, history from Carolingian minuscule, German, French, and English rules, title vs sentence case, and NLP restoration.
Capitalization rate
The capitalization rate, or cap rate, is a property's net operating income divided by its value, used in commercial real estate to estimate price or yield.
Capitalization-weighted index
A capitalization-weighted index is a stock index in which each company's weight is proportional to its market capitalization, the dominant method used by the S&P 500 and FTSE 100.
Capitalspring Investment Partners
CapitalSpring Investment Partners is a Nashville-based private equity and private debt firm focused on franchised restaurant and multi-location businesses, founded around 2005 and raising a $1 billion seventh fund.
Capitec Bank
Capitec Bank is a South African retail bank headquartered in Stellenbosch, founded by Michiel le Roux and other businessmen and listed in 2002, serving more than 26 million clients.
Capitol Crawl
The Capitol Crawl was a disability rights protest on March 12, 1990, when about 60 activists of the ADAPT-led march crawled up the 78 Capitol steps to demand passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, signed July 26, 1990.
Capitol Hill Occupied Protest
Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP), also CHAZ, was a six-block police-free protest zone in Seattle lasting 23 days in June 2020 after police abandoned the East Precinct amid George Floyd protests; it ended in a July 1 sweep after deadly shootings.
Capitoline Museums
The Capitoline Museums (Musei Capitolini) are art and archaeological museums on Rome's Capitoline Hill, generally considered the oldest public museum in the world, founded in 1471.