死し刑けい
Meanings
Noun
1. death penalty; capital punishment
Kanji used
death
criminal punishment
Pitch accent
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Composed of
death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
penalty; sentence; punishment
Used in vocabulary (12 in total)
criminal condemned to death; convict on death row
Examples (8 in total)
I'm against the death penalty.
The accused was sentenced to death.
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.