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 Translation for 'death sentence' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   a death sentence | death sentences
lögfr.
dauðadómur {k}
death sentence
Partial Matches
mál.
málsgrein {kv}
sentence
hegnato sentence
mál.
setning {kv}
sentence
refsato sentence
lögfr.
refsidómur {k}
punitive sentence
mál.
fullyrðingarsetning {kv}
declarative sentence
lögfr.
fangelsisrefsing {kv}
jail sentence
mál.
setningaskipun {kv}
sentence construction
lögfr.
fangelsisdómur {k}
prison sentence
lögfr.
fangelsisrefsing {kv}
custodial sentence
lögfr.
fangelsisrefsing {kv}
prison sentence
afplánun {kv}serving a sentence
afplána dómto serve a sentence
lögfr.
fangelsisrefsing {kv}
sentence of imprisonment
gera e-m greiða e-ðto sentence sb. to pay sth.
til ólífis {adv}to death
ólífi {hv}death
bani {k}death
dauðdagi {k}death
fráfall {hv}death
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Usage Examples English
  • A brawl led to a death sentence for murder and forced him to flee to Naples.
  • The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in such a manner is known as a death sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an execution.
  • The next day, a motion to grant Louis XVI reprieve from the death sentence was voted down: 310 of the deputies requested mercy, but 380 voted for the immediate execution of the death penalty.
  • He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, principally for the use of slave labor, narrowly avoiding a death sentence.
  • In some southern Italian communities, the Mafia has a significant presence, and in these areas becoming a "pentito" is tantamount to a death sentence.

  • After the convictions, the court held a separate hearing before the same jury to determine if the defendants should receive the death sentence.
  • The death sentence of Socrates was the legal consequence of asking politico-philosophic questions of his students, which resulted in the two accusations of moral corruption and impiety.
  • For the first time, the death sentence was also introduced for any act of politically inspired terrorism which involved arson or the use of explosives.
  • Italian historian Andrea Del Col estimates that out of 51,000–75,000 cases judged by Inquisition in Italy after 1542, around 1,250 resulted in a death sentence.
  • In 1916 after Casement's conviction for high treason, the British government circulated alleged photographs of pages of the diary to individuals campaigning for the commutation of Casement's death sentence.

  • Only Moctezuma was allowed to give a death sentence, and all judges had to notify him of any death penalty rulings.
  • When his death sentence was overturned by a Federal court in 2001, he was described as "perhaps the world's best-known death-row inmate" by "The New York Times."
  • A sentence of 100 or 120 lashes was equivalent to a death sentence.
  • He fervently opposed the death penalty, which in his view constituted cruel and unusual punishment; he and Brennan dissented in more than 1,400 cases in which the majority refused to review a death sentence.
  • In "Gregg", the Court ruled that Georgia's revised death penalty laws passed Eighth Amendment scrutiny: the statutes provided a bifurcated trial in which guilt and sentence were determined separately; and, the statutes provided for "specific jury findings" followed by state supreme court review comparing each death sentence "with the sentences imposed on similarly situated defendants to ensure that the sentence of death in a particular case is not disproportionate."

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