Death Warrant Definition

noun
An official order to put a person to death.
Webster's New World
Something that destroys hope or expectation; a deathblow.
American Heritage
Anything that makes inevitable the destruction or end of a person or thing.
Webster's New World
A warrant signed by an appropriate official, such as the governor of a state, directing that a sentence of execution be carried out.
Webster's New World Law
A warrant that authorizes capital punishment.
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Noun

Singular:
death warrant
Plural:
death warrants

Death Warrant Sentence Examples

  • Israel, on the other hand, had signed its death-warrant by the institution of calf-cult, a cult which, however, was scarcely recognized as contrary to the worship of Yahweh before the denunciations of Hosea.

  • He signed the death warrant.

  • His brother, Colonel Robert Lilburne, was among those who signed the death-warrant of Charles I.

  • In 1661, the judges who had signed the death warrant of Charles I of England were pursued by Charles II.

  • In October 1984 Sinclair Research unwittingly signed its own death warrant.

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