put to death
English
Verb
put to death (third-person singular simple present puts to death, present participle putting to death, simple past and past participle put to death)
- To kill as punishment for capital crimes; to execute.
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- 2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian[1]:
- One of Clemons's three co-defendants has already been executed, and Clemons himself came within 12 days of being put to death in 2009.
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to kill as punishment — see execute