Examples of 'death sentence' in a sentence

Meaning of "death sentence"

A 'death sentence' is a legal term that refers to a punishment imposed by a court of law whereby a person is sentenced to be executed as a consequence of committing a serious crime. The phrase is commonly used in the context of capital punishment and the death penalty
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  • A decree that someone be put to death as a punishment for a crime; a sentence of execution.
  • Anything that spells death.

How to use "death sentence" in a sentence

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A death sentence may be substituted by life imprisonment.
That is an automatic death sentence on the street.
The death sentence is mandatory in this case.
Your protocols were a death sentence for millions.
The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
I can not get a death sentence now.
The death sentence is not a foregone conclusion.
All you did is put a death sentence on my grandbaby.
His death sentence was not to be carried out.
Fortunately there is no death sentence in this country.
The death sentence is commuted to life imprisonment.
He will get the death sentence anyway.
Right to seek pardon or commutation of a death sentence.
I deserve the death sentence for my inefficiencies.
I will probably get the death sentence.

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But the death sentence must be earned.
You have just given me a death sentence.
And a death sentence for your boy.
That was like getting a death sentence at a trial.
It was a death sentence for both of us if anybody found it.
Then they put that death sentence on me.
The death sentence is carried out by firing squad.
This directive is a death sentence forthe farmers.
I take it this thing is an automatic death sentence.
Imposition of a death sentence after unfair trial.
To call him a traitor would be a death sentence.
Prohibition of death sentence and life imprisonment.
Every life comes with a death sentence.
I have a death sentence as all in the cell.
You make it sound like a death sentence.
I have the death sentence in twelve systems.
And each one a potential death sentence.
However her death sentence is carried out.
Crimes of terrorism must be punished by a death sentence.
He was later awarded death sentence by the court.
I do not know if that was a suicide or a death sentence.
Written after the death sentence was passed.
And stomach cancer is practically a death sentence.
I have the death sentence on twelve systems.
He prayed to the court for a death sentence.
I wrote their death sentence in my mind yesterday.
I just did not want to accept a death sentence.
And that is a death sentence for him.
I offered him a commutation of his death sentence.
War is always a death sentence for peace.
He looked as though he would received a death sentence.
Crimes for which death sentence are envisaged are as follows.
Their birth became their death sentence.
A cavity was a death sentence on the savannah.
Because a man just got a death sentence.

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