committal vs death sentence

committal

noun
  • The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment. 

  • The act of entrusting something to someone. 

  • The act of perpetrating an offence. 

  • The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation. 

adj
  • Of or relating to commitment. 

  • Of or relating to a committee. 

death sentence

noun
  • A decree that someone be put to death as a punishment for a crime; a sentence of execution. 

  • Anything that spells death. 

How often have the words committal and death sentence occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )