an official document stating that sb should receive the punishment of being killed for a crime that they have committed:
The President signed the death warrant. * If you pay the ransom, you may be signing your son's death warrant. * (figurative) By withdrawing the funding, the government signed the project's death warrant.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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