It is the legal power to make anything disable and incapable of doing anything. In law, it is the restriction imposed on capital punishment in criminal sentencing. It restricts the freedom of the person who has been given a death sentence so that the same act could not take place in the future by the same offender.
For example, many countries have a law on castration. Whoever proven and found doing rape, that person will have to go through the process of castration so that the person who has committed the offence, could not able to do the same negligent act and therefore restricts that offender on doing the same offence.
