The phrase "amounts to death" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to indicate that something leads to or results in death, either literally or metaphorically.
Example: "The reckless behavior of the driver amounts to death for innocent pedestrians."
Alternatives: "results in death" or "leads to death".
Johnson said Channel 4 could stand alone in the digital era but that the gradual decline in revenues would amount to "death by a thousand cuts".
Although evidence of criminality was never a prerequisite for "neutralisation", many innocent victims of Cointrelpro still remain in prison today, serving terms that effectively amount to death sentences.
WASHINGTON — An Internet radio host known for his incendiary views was arrested Wednesday in North Bergen, N.J., after federal officials charged that his angry postings about a gun case in Chicago amounted to death threats against three judges.
The shameful state of rural education, health care and social welfare were brought into prime-time TV focus as the bodies of thousands of dead children were dragged from the rubble of Sichuan schools built on a base of what the Chinese call "tofu" concrete, chicken wire and unforgivable corruption, as builders grew wealthy producing what amounted to death traps.
We have witnessed considerable public controversy in the past months over claims that the relatively benign end-of-life counseling provisions advanced by Republican Senator Johnny Isakson of Georgia and Democratic Congressman Earl Blumenauer of Oregon amount to "death panels" -- assertions which everyone other than Sarah Palin now seems to recognize as patent nonsense.
He tried to paint his case as an issue of human rights, appealing to Europeans' opposition to the death penalty, saying the potential life sentence he faces in the United States amounts to a death sentence.
Whether any of this amounts to the death of fine dining is a moot point.
In these areas, casting a vote amounts to a death wish, because the Taliban view the exercise as traitorous.
But starving Amtrak of needed resources now in the name of advancing reforms that are impractical in the foreseeable future amounts to a death sentence for passenger rail.
Many doctors say the decision amounts to a death sentence for some low-income patients, who have little chance of survival without transplants and lack the hundreds of thousands of dollars needed to pay for them.
