one 's crime deserves more than death

one 's crime deserves more than death

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is s ǐ y ǒ uy ú zh ū, which means that the crime is extremely serious, even if the death penalty can not compensate his crime. It comes from the book of rites of Xie Chu's two duties.

The origin of Idioms

Su Shi of the Song Dynasty wrote in the table of the book of rites of Xie Chu's two duties: "although the minister's beak is three feet and the book of five chariots is read every day, he is not as good as the doctor's divination and the official who runs away with the book. He is a corpse, and he has more to die."

Idiom usage

It refers to the extreme crime