death sentence

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Its weather-worn headstones were a reminder of how, in the not-too-distant past, Hansen’s disease was a death sentence.

From Salon

On March 30, Iran’s Supreme Court announced it had overturned the death sentence for Sahand Nourmohammad-Zadeh, a 26-year-old bodybuilding champion who had been on death row since September.

From New York Times

On Jan. 9, a group of 50 psychiatrists wrote a letter to the judiciary objecting to his death sentence.

From New York Times

“If you were pre-revenue, with the likely need to raise additional revenue, it was practically a death sentence.”

From Seattle Times

Add in the potential damage to Chinese infrastructure from U.S. bombers and the country's economic prospects could be crushed for years to come — a likely death sentence for the Chinese Communist Party.

From Salon