death sentence

And he knew one wrong turn was a death sentence.

The final death sentence always comes from the top level.

Which wasn't a choice so much as a death sentence.

They would then turn themselves in and wait for their expected sentence of death.

Lake said to himself, as if he'd just been given his own death sentence.

Many death sentences are never reported in the press, however.

Try to look a little less as if it were a death sentence, will you?

So simple a thing as that gave the man an early death sentence.

And it would only have brought a death sentence on my head in any case.

For him and many others, it was a death sentence.