death row
noun
: a prison area housing inmates sentenced to death
—usually used with on
prisoners waiting on death row
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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.
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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
While living and teaching criminal law in Michigan, Brooks read about this woman in a newspaper, drove down to meet her, and with the help of his students got her off death row and all charges dropped of a double homicide.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2025
Shawn Ingram, whom prosecutors say is the one who poured the gas on Huguley and set the fire, also was convicted of capital murder and is on Alabama's death row.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
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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
While living and teaching criminal law in Michigan, Brooks read about this woman in a newspaper, drove down to meet her, and with the help of his students got her off death row and all charges dropped of a double homicide.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2025
Shawn Ingram, whom prosecutors say is the one who poured the gas on Huguley and set the fire, also was convicted of capital murder and is on Alabama's death row.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for death row
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“Death row.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20row. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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