death sentence

The convict who hears his death-sentence may still hope for a reprieve; but figures are inexorable, figures cannot lie.

If both of these assumptions were true, he had just heard the death-sentence of every Terran on Ullr.

I have done my share of the work, and this death-sentence is the proof that I have done it thoroughly.

A resolution taken and embedded in the mortar of fact always gives relief, even if a death-sentence is involved in it.