The judicially ordered execution of a person as a punishment for a serious crime.
1Being free in the Sea was a death sentence all its own.
2The maximum penalty for such charges is the death sentence, she said.
3That's a death sentence, Prime Minister Scott Morrison told 2GB yesterday morning.
4In 1678, the death sentence was taken away from the church courts.
5But in both cases the death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
6Betty Winter read the account of the sensational arrest and death sentence.
7Convictions are common, although the death sentence has never been carried out.
8At eleven o'clock the Court pronounces in summary form the death sentence.
9But some relatives of his victims opposed him receiving the death sentence.
10The death sentence had been pronounced against every son of the Hebrews.
11Many were previously a death sentence, said Sean Whelan, chief financial officer.
12The trial was a short one, and the death sentence was passed.
13Under Iran's Islamic sharia law, the charge could carry the death sentence.
14Huong has 15 days in which to appeal against the death sentence.
15The death sentence is pronounced and must be carried out without delay.
16New approaches might also make the infection less of a death sentence.