Illustration: At a secluded official execution ground, two guards escort a bound prisoner toward a straw mat laid on bare earth. A supervising official sits apart with a closed document case, while an executioner waits beside the mat with a sheathed sword.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

死し刑けい

shikei

death penalty

Example sentences

その犯罪はんざいは死刑しけいに値あたいする。
That crime is punishable by death.
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彼かれは死刑しけいを宣告せんこくされた。
He was condemned to death.
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彼かれは死刑しけいに処しょせられた。
He was sentenced to death.
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Kanji in 死刑

死death; dieOnシKunしぬ・しに-
刑punish; penaltyOnケイ

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