tử tội

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A person sentenced to death; a condemned criminal: An individual who has been convicted of a capital crime and is awaiting or has received a death sentence.
   • The crime punishable by death: The capital offense itself for which the death penalty is the prescribed punishment.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Tên tử tội đang chờ ngày hành quyết. (The condemned criminal is awaiting the day of execution.)
  • Hắn bị kết án tử tội vì tội phản quốc. (He was sentenced to death for the crime of treason.)
  • Tòa án đã tuyên án tử tội cho kẻ giết người hàng loạt. (The court handed down a death sentence to the serial killer.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used in legal, journalistic, and historical contexts to refer specifically to individuals on death row or those who have been executed.
• It can carry a formal and severe connotation, emphasizing the gravity of the crime and the finality of the punishment.

Variants and Related Words

• Án tử hình (n): death penalty, death sentence.
  • Bản án là án tử hình. (The verdict is the death penalty.)
• Tội tử hình (n): capital crime, a crime punishable by death.
  • Giết người là một tội tử hình. (Murder is a capital crime.)

Synonyms

• Condemned prisoner: A prisoner sentenced to death.
• Capital offender: A person who has committed a crime for which the death penalty may be imposed.

Related Idioms

• Lên máy chém / lên đoạn đầu đài: to go to the guillotine/scaffold; to be executed.
  • Kẻ tử tội cuối cùng đã lên máy chém. (The last condemned criminal went to the guillotine.)
• Tội đáng chết: deserving of death (often used in a moral or figurative sense, not strictly legal).
  • Hành động của hắn là tội đáng chết. (His actions are a crime deserving of death.)