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death warrant Definition

death warrant

noun

  1. an official order to put a person to death
  2. anything that makes inevitable the destruction or end of a person or thing

death warrant Law Definition

n

A warrant signed by an appropriate official, such as the governor of a state, directing that a sentence of execution be carried out.
death warrant Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • sign: In 1661, the judges who had signed the death warrant of Charles I of England were pursued by Charles II.

Adjective modifier

  • own: In October 1984 Sinclair Research unwittingly signed its own death warrant.
death-warrant Quotes

I know the colour of that blood; it is arterial blood; I cannot be deceived in that colour; that drop of blood is my death-warrantöI must die.

—Keats,John