death sentencenoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈdeθ ˌsen.təns/us/ˈdeθ ˌsen.təns/a legal punishment of a crime by death:
In some countries, drug-smuggling still carries the death sentence.
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Death penalties
- behead
- burn
- capital punishment
- chair
- condemn
- condemn sb to (do) sth
- condemned
- execute
- execution
- executioner
- gallows
- garrotte
- hangman
- hung, drawn, and quartered idiom
- noose
- scaffold
- stake
- stone
- string
- string sb up
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