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death sentence
noun
- a sentence condemning a convicted felon to execution by the state.
Example Sentences
She urged the court to affirm the jury’s verdict and not to vacate Roof’s death sentence.
Higher pressure slows their growth, and slow growth of juveniles has been a death sentence for them.
He argues that sending a 79-year-old man to prison during a pandemic amounts to a death sentence.
Often diagnosed late and resistant to treatment, it is essentially a death sentence—only 8 to 10 percent of patients remain alive five years after diagnosis.
If Oneal is convicted, prosecutors will seek a death sentence, the Times reported.
Had he been competently represented, the jury might well have failed to concur on a death sentence.
The attempt was hatched in an effort to have a death sentence on an IRA man commuted, the military pensions archives reveal.
HIV went from an eventual death sentence to a chronic but manageable illness.
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Why is standing out still a death sentence for black kids in America?
It was like a death sentence pronounced in all solemnity upon some shivering criminal.
If you are afraid to make a cross, infidel, you pass your own death sentence, and I shall take on myself to execute it.
Their abandonment there had been intended as a death sentence for all of them.
The death sentence was rescinded, of course, pending this new trial.
He never informed them that the death sentence had been imposed.
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