It marked their status and/or style.
A. Capital punishment is the death penalty
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At the end of the Mexican American war,the United States obtained Texas.
The final solution as it was called was the nazi plan to exterminate jews first they were shot by the einstazgruppen which used to be hitler personal bodyguards that turned into a death squad when thos proved ineffective they put jews homosexuals and a few other races in death camps and labor camps