How to Use be put to death in a Sentence

be put to death

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  • In a race against the clock, Melissa must find out if an innocent man is going to be put to death for a crime her father committed.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
  • In the old days, in these times, you would be put to death.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Dixon was the sixth inmate to be put to death in the U.S. so far this year.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 11 May 2022
  • The jury will decide if Cruz should be put to death for the murders or be sent to prison for the rest of his life.
    — Sun Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2022
  • In just over two weeks, an innocent man could be put to death.
    — NBC News, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Lucio was slated to be put to death in Texas on Wednesday evening.
    — Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2022
  • And in April, the government announced that minors would no longer be put to death for such crimes.
    — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Activists warn that others could also be put to death in the near future.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Atwood is set to be the second Arizona prisoner to be put to death in less than a month.
    — Fox News, 8 June 2022
  • Nelson is the second man scheduled to be put to death at the federal prison in Terre Haute this week.
    — Justin L. MacK, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The same jury will hear evidence in a second phase to decide whether he should be put to death.
    — Kris Maher, WSJ, 13 July 2023
  • Instead, Barber had asked to be put to death by nitrogen gas.
    — Dakin Andone, CNN, 20 July 2023
  • Richard Glossip was scheduled to be put to death on May 18, but that has now been placed on hold following the high court's ruling.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 6 May 2023
  • Richard Glossip was scheduled to be put to death on May 18, but that has now been placed on hold following the high court's ruling.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 6 May 2023
  • In some places and time periods, however, men could be put to death for doing so.
    — Paul Bloom, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2023
  • He was set to be put to death at 6 p.m., but the prison did not transport media witnesses to Holman until 6:33 p.m.
    — Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al, 28 July 2022
  • Kenneth Eugene Smith is scheduled to be the first person in the United States to be put to death with nitrogen gas.
    — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Is this a sign of protection from the gods, or will the twosome be put to death for expressing forbidden love?
    — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2021
  • The last person to be put to death in the state was Ronnie Gardner, who was executed by firing squad.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The same issue arose when prisoner Alan Eugene Miller, 57, was due to be put to death in September.
    — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Until the end of the Civil War, state law made explicit that only a Black person could be put to death for rape; a White man would face at most 20 years in prison.
    — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2020
  • If a jury hadn’t decided he should be put to death, Tsarnaev would be gone, serving out the rest of his days in federal prison.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2021
  • Barber, 64, is the first inmate in Alabama to be put to death under the state’s new rules that allowed Gov. Kay Ivey to set a 30-hour time frame for the execution.
    — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 20 July 2023
  • James was set to be put to death at 6 p.m. on the night of his execution, but the prison did not transport media witnesses to Holman until 6:33 p.m.
    — Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Five years later, a man the former prosecutor had tried for murder was about to be put to death by lethal injection.
    — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • In the years since the massacre, the victims’ families and congregations have expressed differing views about whether the shooter should be put to death.
    — Dakin Andone, CNN, 26 June 2023
  • Activists warn others could be put to death as well soon since at least a dozen people have so far received death sentences over their involvement in the demonstrations.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Following the ruling, the state backed off executing Willie Smith, who was scheduled for a Thursday night lethal injection and would have been the first person to be put to death by a state this year.
    — Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Advocates also expressed concern that McLaughlin would be put to death even though the jury was not unanimous.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Smith, who was scheduled to be put to death for the murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher’s wife in 1988, was returned to death row at Holman Prison after surviving the attempt, a prison official said.
    — Kim Chandler, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2022

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