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
As lawyer for last-resort cases, Gardner works without fees, has sprung two men out of the death cell and helped get two others out of the penitentiary.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Houston, small-boned Frank Mullins told how last June he broke out of his death cell in Edinburgh jail: he dieted, greased himself with nose salve, slithered through a 12-inch hole and an 18-inch drainpipe.
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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