Meaning of nāvessods | Babel Free

Definitions

death penalty, capital punishment (the legal killing of a condemned criminal by the state as punishment for his or her crimes)

declension-1, masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“mūsdienu Latvijā nāvessods nav piemērojams”

in modern Latvia the death penalty is not applied

“decembrī, Valmieras pamalē, Karātavu kalnā, izpildīja lauka karatiesas piespriestos nāvessodus vienpadsmit komunistiem un komjauniešiem”

in December, in the outskirts of Valmiera, on Karatāvu hill, (they) carried out the death penalties, ordered by military tribunal, of eleven communists and Komosomol members

CEFR level