death cell

British  

noun

1. a prison cell for criminals sentenced to death

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Example Sentences

When she said it she realized that she was giving the same reply that Colonel Aureliano Buendía had given in his death cell, and once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.

From Literature

“Who told you he was in a death cell? And who told you he was in Bekkar?”

From Literature

As was the case with Garner’s death, cell phone videos depicting Zambrano-Montes’s last moment have surfaced.

From Newsweek

Here was a dramatic form based in reality: Elisabeth and the official in the death cell, Elisabeth talking about her life, her family, her faith.

From The Guardian

I stood in the death cell where Jewish fighters condemned by the British Mandate government for insurrection awaited their fate, visited the sites of recent suicide bombings and gazed out across Israel's protective wall, surely the most palpable and chilling symbol of division on our planet.

From The Guardian