death sentence (plural death sentences)
- (law) A decree that someone be put to death as a punishment for a crime; a sentence of execution.
2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club[1]:Tyrion’s tears contain the symbolic weight of his whole life; he wouldn’t be here if not for Jaime, as he admits, and his last hope is to give the man who risked everything to help him survive the same chance. Tyrion knows it’s a death sentence from Daenerys to betray her in this way, but he no longer cares.
1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:Comrades, here and now I pronounce the death sentence upon Snowball.
- (figurative) Anything that spells death.
sentence
- Afrikaans: doodsvonnis
- Armenian: մահապատիժ (hy) (mahapatiž)
- Azerbaijani: ölüm cümləsi
- Bulgarian: смъртна присъда f (smǎrtna prisǎda)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 死刑 (zh) (sǐxíng)
- Danish: dødsdom c
- Dutch: doodstraf (nl) c, doodvonnis (nl) n
- Esperanto: mortkondamno
- Finnish: kuolemantuomio (fi)
- French: arrêt de mort (fr) m, sentence de mort f, condamnation à mort f
- Georgian: სასიკვდილო განაჩენი (sasiḳvdilo ganačeni)
- German: Todesurteil (de) n
- Greek: θανατική καταδίκη f (thanatikí katadíki), θανατική ποινή (el) f (thanatikí poiní)
- Hungarian: halálbüntetés (hu), halálos ítélet (hu) sg
- Icelandic: dauðadómur m
- Indonesian: hukuman mati (id), pidana mati (id)
- Japanese: 死刑判決 (しけいはんけつ, shikei hanketsu)
- Korean: 사형 선고 (ko) (sahyeong seon'go), 사형 언도 (sahyeong eondo)
- Kyrgyz: өлүм жазасы (ölüm jazası)
- Macedonian: смртна казна f (smrtna kazna)
- Odia: ପ୍ରାଣଦଣ୍ଡାଜ୍ଞା (or) (prāṇadaṇḍājñā)
- Polish: wyrok śmierci m
- Portuguese: pena de morte f
- Romanian: condamnare la moarte f, sentință la moarte f
- Russian: сме́ртный пригово́р m (smértnyj prigovór)
- Spanish: sentencia de muerte
- Swedish: dödsdom (sv) c
- Tajik: ҳукми қатл (hukm-i qatl)
- Telugu: మరణ శిక్ష (maraṇa śikṣa), మరణ దండన (maraṇa daṇḍana)
- Thai: โทษประหาร (thos̄ʹ prah̄ār)
- Turkish: ölüm cezası (tr)
- Ukrainian: сме́ртний ви́рок m (smértnyj výrok)
- Uzbek: o'lim jazosi
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