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death sentence

死刑,判处死刑,死刑判决,死亡判决

Related Words

capital punishment死刑,极刑,赎罪,赎罪券death warrant死亡证明,死亡证,死刑判决书,死亡证明书execution执行,处决,执行死刑,处刑

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a sentence condemning a convicted felon to execution by the state.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as incapital punishment
Synonyms
death warrant死亡证明,死亡证,死刑判决书,死亡证明书execution执行,处决,执行死刑,处刑extreme penalty极刑,极端惩罚,极端处罚,极限处罚judicial murder司法谋杀,司法谋杀案,司法谋杀罪,司法杀戮
as indeath penalty
Synonyms
capital punishment死刑,极刑,赎罪,赎罪券death warrant死亡证明,死亡证,死刑判决书,死亡证明书execution执行,处决,执行死刑,处刑judicial execution司法执行,司法处决,司法执行力,司法判决judicial murder司法谋杀,司法谋杀案,司法谋杀罪,司法杀戮legalized killing合法化的杀戮,合法化杀戮,合法化杀人,合法化的杀人

Examples

  • 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.

  • I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

  • Asia Bibi, as she is known, was arrested and sentenced to death.

  • As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

  • The most notorious states are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, where death is an acceptable legal remedy.

  • Father Joel Román Salazar died in a car crash in 2013; his death was ruled an accident, but the suspicion of foul play persists.

  • This is the place where the Muscovite criminals are banished to, if they are not put to death.

  • Before he could finish the sentence the Hole-keeper said snappishly, "Well, drop out again—quick!"

  • Elyon is the name of an ancient Phœnician god, slain by his son El, no doubt the “first-born of death” in Job xviii.

  • Your sacrifice shall be the agony of agonies, the death of deaths, and yet you'll find yourself unable to resist.

  • Good is set against evil, and life against death: so also is the sinner against a just man.

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