しけい
Meanings
Noun
1. death penalty; capital punishment
Pitch accent
Composed of
death; decease; (arch.) death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation); (an) out
penalty; sentence; punishment
Used in vocabulary (10 in total)
criminal condemned to death; convict on death row
death sentence
Examples (8 in total)
I'm against the death penalty.
The judge condemned him to death.
The court sentenced him to death.
That crime is punishable by death.
That man should be sentenced to death.
The death penalty had been done away with in many states in the USA.
It sometimes happens that innocents are sentenced to death.
The accused was sentenced to death.