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