Keyword
criminal punishment
Info
FrequencyTop 1000-1100
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 3
Heisig734
Readings
けい
(99%)
Composed of
oriental lantern
knife
Used in kanji (2 in total)
model
brier
Used in vocabulary (144 in total)
(police) detective; criminal matter
death penalty; capital punishment
Examples (94 in total)
The detective promised to look into the matter right away.
He is a detective.
The man aimed a gun at the detective.
The king was executed.
The thief ran away at the sight of a detective.
He was executed as a spy.
The detectives pursued him.
That crime is punishable by death.
His crime deserves the death penalty.
I'm against the death penalty.
He should be put in prison.
That school looks just like a prison.
Have you ever visited someone in prison?
I don't want to go to jail.
It looks like it would taste worse than prison food.
By the time you get out of jail, she'll probably have gotten married.
By the time you get out of prison, she'll be married.
The prisoner dug a hole under the prison wall.
He was put in jail for writing the book.
He was put in prison.
He was sent to prison.
He escaped from prison by climbing over a wall.
He was in prison on a charge of robbery.
He was sent to jail for the robbery.
He ended up in jail.
He will end up in prison.
They escaped from prison.
Her husband is in prison.
She visited her husband in prison.
There used to be a prison here.
Three men escaped from prison yesterday.
Do you want to spend the rest of your life in jail?
The criminal was arrested and put into prison.
I'm surprised to hear that he is in prison.
I didn't want any of my friends to know that I was in prison.
The police will put you in prison.
He disclosed to me that he had been in prison.
The accused was sentenced to death.
Eventually the cruel man was sentenced to jail.
The drunken man awoke to find himself in prison.
Is it true that Tom is in jail?
Why is Tom in jail?
I thought Tom was still in jail.
Tom was executed.
Tom doesn't want to go to jail.
Tom worked at a local prison.
Tom will be released from prison next month.
Both Tom and Mary are going to prison.
The death penalty had been done away with in many states in the USA.
He advocated abolishing the death penalty.
We should abolish the death penalty.
The death penalty was done away with last year.
We must abolish the death penalty.
There are times when innocent people get executed.
It sometimes happens that innocents are sentenced to death.
If he carries on like this, he's going to wind up in prison.
The two men were released from jail.
I hear he was released after five years in prison.
The detective questioned literally thousands of people about the incident.
The judge condemned him to death.
The presiding judge sentenced the defendant to death.
She enticed him into escaping from prison.
The court sentenced him to death.
That man should be sentenced to death.
Tom was condemned to death.
He was set free after doing five years in prison.
Ignorance does not protect against punishment.
The accused was condemned to ten years in prison.
A detective arrived upon the scene of the crime.
According to today's morning paper, the condemned criminal committed suicide.
The mouth is the executioner and the doctor of the body.
Isn't that the most humane punishment for criminals?
He was let out after serving just two years of his four-year prison sentence.
He served a ten-year prison term.
In the end, he landed in jail.
He is an authority on criminal law.
He was sent to jail for murder.
He was hanged for murder.
The convict was pardoned after serving his sentence.
Tom was convicted and sentenced to death.
He was sentenced to death.
The defendant was sentenced to death.
An overwhelming majority voted to abolish the brutal punishment.
The detective took down his oral testimony on the spot.
The detective took down his testimony on the spot.
The man was given a life sentence.
Three were sentenced to life in prison.
In some countries, the punishment for treason can be life in prison.
Having been convicted of murder, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The murderer was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
The judge sentenced him to a jail term of five years.
The death penalty should be abolished.
The death penalty has been done away with in many states in the USA.
The prisoner was behind bars for two months.