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death row

noun

  1. a row of prison cells for prisoners awaiting execution.


death row

noun

  1. the part of a prison where those sentenced to death are confined
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of death row1

First recorded in 1950–55
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Example Sentences

Chemerinsky wrote that the offer was rescinded after then-university chancellor Michael Drake told him he was “too politically controversial Advertisement ” for an op-ed he wrote criticizing a federal regulation for death row inmates.

He dissented every time the court rebuffed appeals from people on death row, therefore condemning them to die.

There are only two prisoners on death row in Virginia, and the penalty has not been used extensively in many years.

There are two people currently on death row in the commonwealth.

Writing for the panel majority, Judge Gregory Katsas rejected Montgomery’s claim that when it comes to scheduling executions, the federal government must follow the law of the state in which the death row inmate was convicted.

Brown had been serving a life sentence; McCollum had been on Death Row.

After 15 years on Death Row, that was commuted to two life sentences.

The same McCollum who DNA evidence just cleared after he spent 30 years of his life on death row.

A CNN ‘Death Row Stories’ documentary airing Sunday asks: Can American voters put a stop to our need for vengeance?

This, of course, was untreated until he reached death row, after which he became a “model inmate.”

Nakapúga ang bitayúnun, The prisoner escaped from death row.

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