death row
a row of prison cells for prisoners awaiting execution.
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Chemerinsky wrote that the offer was rescinded after then-university chancellor Michael Drake told him he was “too politically controversial Advertisement ” for an op-ed he wrote criticizing a federal regulation for death row inmates.
He dissented every time the court rebuffed appeals from people on death row, therefore condemning them to die.
Xavier Becerra is the victim of the right’s distortion of Catholicism | Duncan Hosie | March 19, 2021 | Washington PostThere are only two prisoners on death row in Virginia, and the penalty has not been used extensively in many years.
Virginia legislature votes to abolish the death penalty | Gregory S. Schneider, Laura Vozzella | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostThere are two people currently on death row in the commonwealth.
With state Senate vote, Virginia moves closer to abolishing death penalty | Laura Vozzella, Gregory S. Schneider | February 3, 2021 | Washington PostWriting for the panel majority, Judge Gregory Katsas rejected Montgomery’s claim that when it comes to scheduling executions, the federal government must follow the law of the state in which the death row inmate was convicted.
U.S. executes its first female death row inmate in decades | Ann Marimow, Robert Barnes | January 13, 2021 | Washington Post
Brown had been serving a life sentence; McCollum had been on death row.
How the U.S. Justice System Screws Prisoners with Disabilities | Elizabeth Picciuto | December 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAfter 15 years on death row, that was commuted to two life sentences.
Did Pablo Escobar Frame a Millionaire for Murdering Banana-Shipping Money Launderers? | Jacqui Goddard | November 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe same McCollum who DNA evidence just cleared after he spent 30 years of his life on death row.
A CNN ‘death row Stories’ documentary airing Sunday asks: Can American voters put a stop to our need for vengeance?
This, of course, was untreated until he reached death row, after which he became a “model inmate.”
Nakapúga ang bitayúnun, The prisoner escaped from death row.
A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan | John U. Wolff
British Dictionary definitions for death row
US the part of a prison where those sentenced to death are confined
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