civil death

noun

1. law (formerly) the loss of all civil rights because of a serious conviction See also attainder

Example Sentences

A Superior Court judge concluded that the civil death statute barred their claims, so they appealed to the high court.

From Seattle Times

Even in halcyon days of "corrections," the rehabilitation ideal co-existed with a commitment to racial subordination, both in society and within prisons, and the formal legal acceptance of convicts' "civil death."

From Salon

Here is the story of how civil death in the US came to be.

From The Guardian

This idea harks back to ancient Greece, where “civil death,” or a permanent loss of rights, was imposed on people convicted of certain crimes.

From Washington Times

Around a hundred and fifty thousand people have been purged from civil-service jobs “and sentenced to civil death by being blacklisted even from private sources of employment,” he said.

From The New Yorker