to kill

to execute by firing squad

to meet violent death

to fall dead

to die suddenly

to await death

to drown

suffering the consequences of one's doing; you ask for it

to strangle or throttle to death

to sit and wait for death (idiom); resigned to one's fate

(slang) awesome

to wait helplessly for death (idiom)

to die of hunger or disease (of a prisoner)

hands tied and expecting the worst

persisting in evil brings about self-destruction (idiom)