death row
noun
: a prison area housing inmates sentenced to death
—usually used with on
prisoners waiting on death row
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Florida’s death row still houses over 240 inmates.
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Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 31 Dec. 2025
Defense teams hire Vartkessian to spend long, deliberately aimless hours with people on death row, and to tell the stories of their lives to the court.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
In November 2004, Peterson was found guilty of the murder of his wife and unborn son and was sentenced to death row.
—Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 27 Dec. 2025
Brian Wharton's church in Onalaska, Texas, is 16 miles from the prison where Robert Roberson is incarcerated on death row.
—Dan Slepian, NBC news, 24 Dec. 2025
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Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 31 Dec. 2025
Defense teams hire Vartkessian to spend long, deliberately aimless hours with people on death row, and to tell the stories of their lives to the court.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
In November 2004, Peterson was found guilty of the murder of his wife and unborn son and was sentenced to death row.
—Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 27 Dec. 2025
Brian Wharton's church in Onalaska, Texas, is 16 miles from the prison where Robert Roberson is incarcerated on death row.
—Dan Slepian, NBC news, 24 Dec. 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 9 Jan. 2026.
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