death row
noun
: a prison area housing inmates sentenced to death
—usually used with on
prisoners waiting on death row
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Wood had been on death row for a 2002 murder.
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Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
Wuornos, who was found guilty of six murders and received six death sentences, was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002, after a decade on death row.
—Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 31 Oct. 2025
But according to an archival interview from former death row inmate Deirdre Hunt, Wuornos asked her fellow prisoners to keep their suspicions to themselves.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
Federal public defender Kelley Henry represents several men on Tennessee’s death row, including Oscar Smith and Byron Black, who were executed in May and August of this year.
—Evan Mealins, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Oct. 2025
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Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
Wuornos, who was found guilty of six murders and received six death sentences, was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002, after a decade on death row.
—Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 31 Oct. 2025
But according to an archival interview from former death row inmate Deirdre Hunt, Wuornos asked her fellow prisoners to keep their suspicions to themselves.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
Federal public defender Kelley Henry represents several men on Tennessee’s death row, including Oscar Smith and Byron Black, who were executed in May and August of this year.
—Evan Mealins, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Oct. 2025
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“Death row.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20row. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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