put to death


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Synonyms for put to death

kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment

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Then the eldest brother replied, 'The corn has all been cut, but it has not yet been put into barns; let the knave collect all the grain in the kingdom into one big heap before to-morrow night, and if as much as a stalk of corn is left let him be put to death.
In the months of August and September, 1692, he and nineteen other innocent men and women were put to death. The place of execution was a high hill, on the outskirts of Salem; so that many of the sufferers, as they stood beneath the gallows, could discern their own habitations in the town.
Then the king made it known to all the land, that if any person could discover the secret, and find out where it was that the princesses danced in the night, he should have the one he liked best for his wife, and should be king after his death; but whoever tried and did not succeed, after three days and nights, should be put to death.
"And I also fear that those who are not fairies, such as the Wizard, and Dorothy, and her uncle and aunt, as well as Toto and Billina, will be speedily put to death by the conquerors."
Now there were some who cried that the boy must be put to death, because he had killed one possessed with a spirit.
To give himself up and be put to death? He laughed.
Some of those put to death were Birmingham murderers including Kingstanding killer James Farrell, 18, who was hanged at Birmingham Prison in 1949 for strangling Joan Marney in Sutton Park.
Another man, Mujtaba al-Sweikat, who was just 17 at the time he was alleged to have committed offences, such as attending protests, was also put to death. At the time of his arrest he was at the King Fahd International Airport waiting to catch a flight with his family to begin undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan.
Riyadh -- Saudi Arabia's interior ministry said four people were executed on Monday for drug trafficking, including one woman, bringing to 53 the number of people put to death this year.
RIYADH:Saudi Arabia's interior ministry said four people including two Pakistani nationals were executed on Monday for drug trafficking, bringing to 53 the number of people put to death this year.
Saudi Arabia's interior ministry said four people were executed on Monday for drug trafficking, including one woman, bringing to 53 the number of people put to death this year.Two Pakistani men, a Yemeni man and a Nigerian woman were executed in the holy city of Makkah, the ministry said in statements carried by the officialSaudi Press Agency.
Only five Washington prisoners have been put to death in recent decades.
This kind of statement is a form of sin called blasphemy, and let us not forget that 'the one who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him.