to death

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Recent Examples of to death In 2017, he was convicted on the murder charges of Causse and Miller and sentenced to death row. — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026 Wuornos was convicted of six counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in January 1992. — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2026 Among them was a Nipmuc war leader named Matoonas, who was tied to a tree, shot to death, then beheaded. — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026 He was again sentenced to death after a 1992 retrial, and courts in Utah rejected numerous appeals from Carter in subsequent years. — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for to death

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“To death.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/to%20death. Accessed 3 Oct. 2026.

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