death warrant

Meanings

noundeath warrant (plural death warrants)

An official warrant that authorizes capital punishment.
Synonyms: execution warrant
figurativelyThat which definitively spells the end of something.
Ordo Malleus Inquisitor: I hereby sign the death warrant of an entire world, and consign a million souls to oblivion.
2011, Relic Entertainment, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution, scene: Exterminatus declared on Typhon Primaris

nounAn official warrant that authorizes capital punishment.

Similar

execution warrant

Arabic عقوبَة الإعدام

Czech rozsudek smrti

French condamnation à mort

German Todesurteil, Hinrichtungsbefehl

Italian condanna a morte

Polish kara śmierci

Portuguese sentença de morte

Russian сме́ртная ка́знь

Spanish sentencia de muerte

Turkish ölüm cezası, idam cezası

Ukrainian сме́ртний ви́рок

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