"put n to death" construction
Form
NP
Authority
put
NP
Victim
to death
Examples
Here
Authority
we
still
put
put
Victim
murderers
to death
[to death.]
Meaning
An Authority causes a Victim to be killed, usually because of some wrongdoing.
Roles
Authority
A person or group that is control of the Victim's death sentence.
Victim
The person that the Authority has decided should be killed.