death cell
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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As was the case with Garner’s death, cell phone videos depicting Zambrano-Montes’s last moment have surfaced.
From Newsweek • Feb. 18, 2015
The ferocity of the sentiments in both verses – Harper wrote the song "thinking of Carl Chessman, fighting for his life in his death cell" – are enhanced by a brilliant arrangement.
From The Guardian • Jan. 26, 2011
Another is Don West, six-foot radical poet released fortnight ago from the death cell in Pineville, Ky. jail where he had been held on a charge of criminal syndicalism.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the morning of execution, five armed warders and an African priest entered the death cell.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Who told you he was in a death cell? And who told you he was in Bekkar?”
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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