condemned cell

British  

noun

1. a prison cell in which a person condemned to death awaits execution

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Example Sentences

"The governor enters the condemned cell with the executioner at 08:58. The execution takes place at 09:00, with the medical officer's inspection of Teed at 09:02 and the burial at 12:05."

From BBC

The paper notes Dutchman Dylan Snel and Canadian Lindsey Petersen had spent a "terrifying" night in the condemned cell of Sabah's prison, because the usual holding pens were full.

From BBC

The door is unlocked and we enter Bristol Prison’s condemned cell for the last time.

From The Guardian

One corner of his library was filled with a strange company of antiquated books of orthodox type; this he called “the condemned cell.”

From Project Gutenberg

When Lettice and Pamela were in the house the sense of contact with the ordinary frivolities of the world was never absent; but without them the house became nothing but a cul-de-sac, a kind of condemned cell, so deep did it lie under the spell of dreadful verdicts.

From Project Gutenberg