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Definition of death sentence in US English: death sentencenoun Law 1A sentence to be put to death for a capital crime. Example sentencesExamples - She believes it is not the worst who receive a death sentence, but those who have the worst counsel.
- Here they would hand out judgement on outstanding cases and remind people that the law ruled their lives and wrongdoing could result in the death sentence.
- We all know that the only punishment that fits the crime of child rape and murder is the death sentence.
- They were all given jail sentences and only Elliott was given the death sentence.
- The appeals courts are very meticulous about making sure every death sentence is appropriate.
- Attorneys said it is not known how many people have pleaded guilty to a capital offense and asked for a death sentence.
- Weighing this and the other findings, the jury could not unanimously agree to impose the death sentence.
- It is up to the panel of judges to decide whether they will impose the death sentence or a life sentence for me.
- He is being tried as an adult in nearby Chesapeake, VA, and also faces a possible death sentence.
- Everybody knows the death sentence for sociopaths is not a detraction, it doesn't work.
- Until recently anyone caught carrying out such acts would have received the death sentence.
- He'd also ordered that she be given the most extreme punishment… not a life sentence, but a death sentence.
- They were convicted of the crime, but Darrow saved them from a death sentence.
- I mean, there are some crimes that give an automatic death sentence.
- The new law now gives the sentencing judge the choice of imposing either a death sentence or a life sentence for the same crime.
- The charges could have potentially resulted in a death sentence for the lieutenant.
- You can say he is dispensable to some extent, and in fact the death sentence on a man like him has actually turned him into a martyr.
- If there is no foreign DNA at the crime scene then the death sentence should immediately become a non-option.
- The death sentence meets the sentencing requirements for extreme cases of murder more effectively than any other sentence can do.
- I don't believe that I would want the perpetrator of the crime to be given a death sentence (if this were an option).
- 1.1 A disastrous result or outcome.
the market crash was a death sentence for many dot-coms Example sentencesExamples - Revealing a weak spot was a death sentence, and he had become the sentencer.
- Today guys act like two hours in a suit at a wedding is a death sentence.
- Civilians are still being displaced, women are still being raped, and going home is a death sentence.
- After all, he did willingly write himself a death sentence when he took those pictures of Jock that time before.
- And know that cancer is not a death sentence - or even the end of a baseball career.
- Yes, what he did was sleazy, but it didn't warrant, they say, a journalistic death sentence.
- An offending hawthorn will bite the dust and a small stand of Virginia creeper has been issued a death sentence.
- Equally surprising is that Glennon is so eager to pronounce a death sentence on the Security Council today.
- In this lakeside town in Kenya, having smelly feet could be a death sentence.
- For the chronically disabled Potter, life was a death sentence; but he would have the last word.
- To disagree with the guild master was foolhardy, but to blatantly contradict his words was a death sentence.
- Service in the armed forces can be risky, but it is not tantamount to a death sentence.
- Anyone who contravenes the taboo against making historical comparisons brings a moral death sentence down on himself.
- His comments will serve as a death sentence to Americans in the region.
Definition of death sentence in US English: death sentencenoun Law 1A sentence to be put to death for a capital crime. Example sentencesExamples - You can say he is dispensable to some extent, and in fact the death sentence on a man like him has actually turned him into a martyr.
- Until recently anyone caught carrying out such acts would have received the death sentence.
- If there is no foreign DNA at the crime scene then the death sentence should immediately become a non-option.
- Weighing this and the other findings, the jury could not unanimously agree to impose the death sentence.
- Everybody knows the death sentence for sociopaths is not a detraction, it doesn't work.
- I don't believe that I would want the perpetrator of the crime to be given a death sentence (if this were an option).
- She believes it is not the worst who receive a death sentence, but those who have the worst counsel.
- They were all given jail sentences and only Elliott was given the death sentence.
- The death sentence meets the sentencing requirements for extreme cases of murder more effectively than any other sentence can do.
- They were convicted of the crime, but Darrow saved them from a death sentence.
- The appeals courts are very meticulous about making sure every death sentence is appropriate.
- I mean, there are some crimes that give an automatic death sentence.
- Here they would hand out judgement on outstanding cases and remind people that the law ruled their lives and wrongdoing could result in the death sentence.
- He is being tried as an adult in nearby Chesapeake, VA, and also faces a possible death sentence.
- The charges could have potentially resulted in a death sentence for the lieutenant.
- The new law now gives the sentencing judge the choice of imposing either a death sentence or a life sentence for the same crime.
- He'd also ordered that she be given the most extreme punishment… not a life sentence, but a death sentence.
- It is up to the panel of judges to decide whether they will impose the death sentence or a life sentence for me.
- Attorneys said it is not known how many people have pleaded guilty to a capital offense and asked for a death sentence.
- We all know that the only punishment that fits the crime of child rape and murder is the death sentence.
- 1.1 A disastrous result or outcome.
the market crash was a death sentence for many dot-coms Example sentencesExamples - After all, he did willingly write himself a death sentence when he took those pictures of Jock that time before.
- And know that cancer is not a death sentence - or even the end of a baseball career.
- For the chronically disabled Potter, life was a death sentence; but he would have the last word.
- Anyone who contravenes the taboo against making historical comparisons brings a moral death sentence down on himself.
- Today guys act like two hours in a suit at a wedding is a death sentence.
- Service in the armed forces can be risky, but it is not tantamount to a death sentence.
- Equally surprising is that Glennon is so eager to pronounce a death sentence on the Security Council today.
- Civilians are still being displaced, women are still being raped, and going home is a death sentence.
- In this lakeside town in Kenya, having smelly feet could be a death sentence.
- To disagree with the guild master was foolhardy, but to blatantly contradict his words was a death sentence.
- Yes, what he did was sleazy, but it didn't warrant, they say, a journalistic death sentence.
- An offending hawthorn will bite the dust and a small stand of Virginia creeper has been issued a death sentence.
- Revealing a weak spot was a death sentence, and he had become the sentencer.
- His comments will serve as a death sentence to Americans in the region.
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