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