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death war·rant

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. death warrantnoun

    a warrant to execute the death sentence

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  1. death warrantnoun

    A warrant that authorizes capital punishment.

Wikipedia

  1. death warrant

    An execution warrant (also called death warrant or black warrant) is a writ that authorizes the execution of a condemned person. An execution warrant is not to be confused with a "license to kill", which operates like an arrest warrant but with deadly force instead of arrest as the end goal.

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  1. death warrant

    A death warrant is a legal order issued by a government or court of law that authorizes the execution or death penalty of a convicted criminal. It typically stipulates the method of execution, the time and place, and sometimes, details of the crime committed.

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  1. Death Warrant

    Death Warrant is a 1990 action movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. The film was written by David S. Goyer while a student at USC, and was Goyer's first screenplay to be sold and produced commercially.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of death warrant in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of death warrant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of death warrant in a Sentence

  1. Greg Abbott:

    The numbers just continue to improve. To put all of this in context, from the very beginning many businesses remained open, in March, we had the entire economy open up 100 % and no more masks. And, of course, President Biden and the Democrats railed against it. … Other Democrats said that I had issued a death warrant.

  2. Amy Miller:

    We are deeply disappointed that the court would issue a death warrant when multiple cases relevant to the death penalty are currently pending in the courts.

  3. Marty Carpenter:

    We regret anyone ever commits the heinous crime of aggravated murder to merit the death penalty and we prefer to use our primary method of lethal injection when such a sentence is issued. However, when a jury makes the decision and a judge signs a death warrant, enforcing that lawful decision is the obligation of the executive branch.

  4. John Coffee:

    If you seem arrogant in court, you may be signing your own economic death warrant.

  5. Edith Wharton:

    Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit


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