What is "put to death"

Usage examples of "put to death".

He is not anxious to prove that people who call Zeus by some other name will suffer eternal punishment and ought to be put to death in order that their punishment may begin as soon as possible.

They have even been known to put to death people convicted of the evil act of killing unicorns.

Nor do I understand why almighty god later allowed his own innocent son to be put to death in a gruesome way in order to forgive the whole world for its sins.

And therefore if you let me go now, and reject the counsels of Anytus, who said that if I were not put to death I ought not to have been prosecuted, and that if I escape now, your sons will all be utterly ruined by listening to my words--if you say to me, Socrates, this time we will not mind Anytus, and will let you off, but upon one condition, that you are not to inquire and speculate in this way any more, and that if you are caught doing this again you shall die.

Your choices are simple: you can send him up to the state prison to be put to death, or you can put him back on the street.

Agnes the Martyr, put to death in the beginning of the IV Century, one of the favorite saints of the Middle Ages.

Those who could pronounce it the way the king pronounced it would live, but those who could not were immediately put to death.

We couldn't surrender, not without being put to death or imprisoned, although I thought imprisonment was highly unlikely.

In the spring we'll go to Jerusalem for the Passover, and there I will be judged by the scribes and the priests, and there I will be tortured and put to death.

That captain was put to death for his effrontery and Wovogh promoted.

I suppose that statement indicates clearly enough how I feel about the marriageit needs to be put to death mercifully.