death sentence
Condemned to die
A death sentence is a court's formal order that a convicted person be executed.
More broadly, it describes anything that will inevitably cause death: The diagnosis felt like a death sentence.
Figuratively, it can mean certain doom for anything: That scandal was a death sentence for his career.
Completing a planned task
- lethal injectionCapital punishment by needle
- electric chairElectrocution execution device
- gas chamberSealed execution room using poison
- firing squadGroup executing by gunshot
gallows · guillotine · hangman · executioner · last meal · lethal dose
Official court decision
- convictionFirmly held belief
- trialJudicial examination of claims
- courtroomJudicial proceedings chamber
- juryLegal decision-making body
judge · appeal · prosecution · defense · testimony · evidence · attorney · counsel
Study of right conduct
- sanctity of lifePrinciple that existence is sacred
- humaneMarked by kindness
- inhumaneCallously causing suffering
- cruelWillfully causing suffering
mercy · retribution · justice · innocence · wrongful conviction · abolition · deterrence · vengeance
Unavoidable grim fate
- inevitableCertain to occur
- terminalAt the endpoint
- fatalCausing death or ruin
- hopelessBeyond possibility of success
inescapable · sealed fate · final blow · nail in the coffin · point of no return · writing on the wall · countdown · ticking clock
execution
Completing a planned task
- lethal injectionCapital punishment by needle
- electric chairElectrocution execution device
- gas chamberSealed execution room using poison
firing squad · gallows · guillotine · hangman · executioner · last meal · lethal dose
verdict
Official court decision
- convictionFirmly held belief
- trialJudicial examination of claims
- courtroomJudicial proceedings chamber
jury · judge · appeal · prosecution · defense · testimony · evidence · attorney · counsel · sentencing
ethics
Study of right conduct
- sanctity of lifePrinciple that existence is sacred
- humaneMarked by kindness
- inhumaneCallously causing suffering
cruel · mercy · retribution · justice · innocence · wrongful conviction · abolition · deterrence · vengeance · forgiveness
doom
Unavoidable grim fate
- inevitableCertain to occur
- terminalAt the endpoint
- fatalCausing death or ruin
hopeless · inescapable · sealed fate · final blow · nail in the coffin · point of no return · writing on the wall · countdown · ticking clock · endgame
- Lincoln assassinationJohn Wilkes Booth, Ford's Theatre, assassination, Booth, derringer
- literary deathdying, corpse, funeral, grave, murder mystery
- death idiomsdead end, dead serious, dead wrong, dead tired, dead weight
- executionexecution, lethal injection, firing squad, gas chamber, electric chair
- Joan of ArcJoan of Arc, French heroine, martyr, saint, heroine
- Passion narrativeJesus, Jesus Christ, Pilate, Pontius Pilate, Barabbas
death sentenceacquittal
Formal clearing of charges
not guilty verdict · exoneration · dismissal · pardon · commutation
death sentencereprieve
Postponement of punishment
new lease on life · second chance · salvation · clean bill of health · stay of execution
death sentenceclemency
Merciful treatment of offenders
mercy · pardon · commutation · amnesty · compassionate release
death, deadly, sentence, deaths, deathly, deadpan, deathless, deadening, deathbed