put to death
Example Sentences
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Deuteronomy 24:16 states: “Parents shall not be put to death for children, nor children be put to death for parents: a person shall be put to death only for his own crime.”
Some lawyers for federal inmates who were eventually put to death argued in court that firing squads actually would be quicker and less painful than pentobarbital, which they said causes a sensation akin to drowning.
From Seattle Times
The jury deliberated for about an hour in 1988 before convicting Mr. Kuenzel of capital murder, then unanimously recommending he be put to death.
From Washington Post
The last inmate to be executed by lethal gas in the United States was Walter LaGrand, who was put to death in 1999 after being convicted of murdering a bank manager in Arizona in 1982.
From Fox News
In its rebuttal of the claims, Neuralink acknowledged that two animals were put to death "at planned end dates to gather important histological data".
From BBC
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