death sentence

noun

1. a sentence condemning a convicted felon to execution by the state.

Example Sentences

The fallout from all this has created a diplomatic bind: Dhaka wants Hasina extradited, but Delhi has shown no inclination to comply - making her death sentence effectively unenforceable.

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“That could almost be a death sentence,” coach Lincoln Riley said Wednesday.

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In early November three judges returned a guilty verdict, which carried a death sentence, but they told Senesh that she could ask for a pardon.

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Rev. McDonald—she was ordained in 2009—was diagnosed just before new, highly effective treatments for the virus became available, turning what would have been a death sentence a few years earlier into a manageable condition.

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Now it's a curse, and for Shaaban Al Ezzeldin, 46, it was a death sentence.

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Related Words

• capital punishment