eliminate vs put to death

eliminate

verb
  • To kill (a person or animal). 

  • To exclude (from investigation or from further competition). 

  • To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to. 

  • To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions. 

  • To excrete (waste products). 

put to death

verb
  • To kill as punishment for capital crimes; to execute. 

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