death penalty

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How to use death penalty in a sentence

  • Such was the temper of the time, that had he been captured alive he would surely have suffered the formal legal death penalty.

  • His sentence of the death penalty was then in accord with the judgment of the best mental experts.

  • Any man found away from his post from this point on is in open mutiny and can expect the death penalty.

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  • The death penalty, the usual decree of the court, was generally inflicted by hanging.

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  • With savage glee he inflicted the death penalty on his foe, and went on his way exulting.

British Dictionary definitions for death penalty

death penalty

noun
  1. the death penalty capital punishment

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