death sentence

English

death sentence (plural death sentences)

(law) A decree that someone be put to death as a punishment for a crime; a sentence of execution.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
  
  Comrades, here and now I pronounce the death sentence upon Snowball.
(figuratively) Anything that spells death.
Having the Huntington's gene is a death sentence.

sentence

Greek: θανατική καταδίκη f (thanatikí katadíki), θανατική ποινή (el) f (thanatikí poiní)
Hungarian: halálbüntetés (hu)
Icelandic: dauðadómur m
Japanese: 死刑判決 (しけいはんけつ, shikei hanketsu)
Korean: 사형 선고 (sahyeong seon-go), 사형 언도 (sahyeong eondo)
Kyrgyz: өлүм жазасы (ölüm cazası)
Polish: wyrok śmierci m
Portuguese: pena de morte f
Russian: сме́ртный пригово́р m (smértnyj prigovór)
Spanish: please add this translation if you can
Swedish: dödsdom (sv) c
Tajik: ҳукми қатл (hukmi qatl)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: ölüm cezası (tr)
Uzbek: o'lim jazosi

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