Below you will find example sentences with "death penalty". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Death Penalty in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: death
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 21
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 30.9 words

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 11 start, 9 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "death penalty" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 30.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as of the death penalty, a revised death penalty statute which, law, states and court stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with death toll, causing death and sudden death, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with death penalty

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Due to recent changes in death penalty law in Oregon, Christian is not facing the death penalty. (17 words)

Death penalty The Hessian constitution was written in 1946, and Article 21 permitted the use of the death penalty. (19 words)

DEATH PENALTY: A measure to abolish the death penalty in Washington state passed the Senate and awaits action in the House. (21 words)

Mr Agbotsey was speaking at a campaign dubbed: ‘Public action on the impact of the death penalty of children’ organised by AI to mark the 17th World Day Against Death Penalty on the theme: “Children: Unseen victims of death penalty”. (40 words)

According to Vasquez, Indonesia’s decision allowing Veloso to be transferred back to the Philippines effectively means that it has agreed to commute her sentence from death penalty to life imprisonment since there is no death penalty in the Philippines. (40 words)

After the U.S. Supreme Court threw out Georgia's death penalty statute in Furman v. Georgia (1972), Carter signed a revised death penalty statute which addressed the court's objections, thus re-introducing the practice in the state. (39 words)

Example sentences (20)

Mr Agbotsey was speaking at a campaign dubbed: ‘Public action on the impact of the death penalty of children’ organised by AI to mark the 17th World Day Against Death Penalty on the theme: “Children: Unseen victims of death penalty”.

White, however, was not against the death penalty in all forms: he voted to uphold the death penalty statutes at issue in Gregg v. Georgia (1976), even the mandatory death penalty schemes struck down by the Court.

According to the Chinese government, the death penalty serves as a deterrent to other crimes, including corruption, thus let the death penalty become the final option in Nigeria.

The retrial for Rogers seeks to determine whether he will receive the death penalty or life in prison without parole after his original death penalty sentence was vacated by the California Supreme Court.

According to Vasquez, Indonesia’s decision allowing Veloso to be transferred back to the Philippines effectively means that it has agreed to commute her sentence from death penalty to life imprisonment since there is no death penalty in the Philippines.

It successfully sought the death penalty for an antisemitic gunman who murdered 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue, though that attack was authorized as a death penalty case before Garland took office.

Due to recent changes in death penalty law in Oregon, Christian is not facing the death penalty.

Pursehouse could face the death penalty if convicted, prosecutors said, though a decision on whether to seek the death penalty has not yet been determined.

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Even though the government previously committed to a full abolition of the death penalty, it is expected to soon table legislation in the Malaysian Parliament that'll remove the mandatory death penalty for only 11 offences.

DEATH PENALTY: A measure to abolish the death penalty in Washington state passed the Senate and awaits action in the House.

According to many human rights activists, the death penalty violates this right. citation The United Nations has called on states retaining the death penalty to establish a moratorium on capital punishment with a view to its abolition.

After the U.S. Supreme Court threw out Georgia's death penalty statute in Furman v. Georgia (1972), Carter signed a revised death penalty statute which addressed the court's objections, thus re-introducing the practice in the state.

Bavaria held a referendum in 1998 and successfully removed the law concerning death penalty from its constitution, and the Saarland removed the passage concerning the death penalty upon reunion with Germany in 1956.

Buddhism further Use of the death penalty in Asia There is disagreement among Buddhists as to whether or not Buddhism forbids the death penalty.

Death penalty The Hessian constitution was written in 1946, and Article 21 permitted the use of the death penalty.

Each participant read descriptions of two studies: a comparison of U.S. states with and without the death penalty, and a comparison of murder rates in a state before and after the introduction of the death penalty.

Federal courts have the power to bring death penalty charges under federal law, even if they arise in states where there is no death penalty under state law, but the federal government rarely utilizes this right.

His father, although a kind man in private, was also an aggressive prosecuting attorney who tried death penalty cases, arguing strongly for the death penalty to be imposed.

Protocol 6 - restriction of death penalty Requires parties to restrict the application of the death penalty to times of war or "imminent threat of war".

States with a valid death penalty statute States without the death penalty Most countries including almost all First World nations have abolished capital punishment either in law or in practice.

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