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put to death
Idioms and Phrases
Kill, execute, as in Another convicted murderer was put to death last night . [c. 1400]Example Sentences
Mexico has abolished capital punishment and typically does not extradite citizens who could be put to death under U.S. law.
More people have been put to death in Texas than anywhere else in the US.
Cantu has the same name as the Texas death row inmate who was put to death with a lethal injection two days after Kardashian’s post.
For example, in the case of Wesley Purkey, the second person put to death in the Trump/Barr execution spree, his lawyers argued that Purkey “suffered ‘extreme pain’ as he received a dose of pentobarbital….â€
During Trump’s first term, 13 inmates were put to death on federal death row, restarting federal executions after about 20 years.
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