death cell
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
He was sentenced to death and put in a death cell.
From BBC
“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
"After eight years in a death cell, he came out - by the grace of Allah - and now he is back on the battlefield," intones the YouTube video voiceover.
From Reuters
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