death sentence
Example Sentences
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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
The fallout from all this has created a diplomatic bind: Dhaka wants Hasina extradited, but Delhi has shown no inclination to comply - making her death sentence effectively unenforceable.
From BBC
“That could almost be a death sentence,” coach Lincoln Riley said Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times
In early November three judges returned a guilty verdict, which carried a death sentence, but they told Senesh that she could ask for a pardon.
Rev. McDonald—she was ordained in 2009—was diagnosed just before new, highly effective treatments for the virus became available, turning what would have been a death sentence a few years earlier into a manageable condition.
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