death row
noun
: a prison area housing inmates sentenced to death
—usually used with on
prisoners waiting on death row
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Twenty-six people remain on South Carolina's death row.
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CBS News, 8 May 2025
Another of the nonprofit’s clients, death row prisoner Gerald Pizzuto, 69, who is terminally ill with bladder cancer, also is under an active execution stay.
—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 29 Apr. 2025
President Joe Biden imposed a moratorium on federal death row executions.
—Kristin Wright, NPR, 25 Apr. 2025
Or consider the sizable percentage of death row prisoners with histories of traumatic brain injury to their frontal cortex.
—Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 3 Apr. 2025
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CBS News, 8 May 2025
Another of the nonprofit’s clients, death row prisoner Gerald Pizzuto, 69, who is terminally ill with bladder cancer, also is under an active execution stay.
—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 29 Apr. 2025
President Joe Biden imposed a moratorium on federal death row executions.
—Kristin Wright, NPR, 25 Apr. 2025
Or consider the sizable percentage of death row prisoners with histories of traumatic brain injury to their frontal cortex.
—Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 3 Apr. 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 17 May. 2025.
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