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Definition of Death warrant
1. Noun. A warrant to execute the death sentence.
Definition of Death warrant
1. Noun. A warrant that authorizes capital punishment. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Death Warrant
Literary usage of Death warrant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Documents of English Constitutional History by George Burton Adams, Henry Morse Stephens (1906)
"The death warrant of Charles I (164!, January 29. Rushworth, viii. 1426. Gardiner,
380. ... death warrant ..."
2. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"... ELIZABETH SIGNING MARY'S death warrant On February 1, 1587, after the discovery
of the ... death warrant."
3. Source-book of English History: For the Use of Schools and Readers by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall (1900)
"The Death-Warrant of Charles I (1649) At the high Co°t of Justice for the ...
The death-warrant hears fifty-nine signatures, but all accounts go to prove ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"492), and on being nominated one of the commissioners of the high court of justice
attended each day of the trial, and signed the death-warrant ..."
5. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"THE death warrant READ TO MARY At Fotheringay the frequent arrival of strangers
had of late excited misgivings and apprehensions among the servants of Mary. ..."
6. Scotland by Walter Scott, Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1899)
"... for his Mother: they decline the Office—Elizabeth's Uncertainty—She contrives
to throw the issuing of the death warrant upon her Secretary and Council, ..."
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