death row
noun
: a prison area housing inmates sentenced to death
—usually used with on
prisoners waiting on death row
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Execution rescheduled from 2021 Owens’ execution had been scheduled for June 25, 2021, but the process was halted that month after the state supreme court blocked the executions of Owens and another death row inmate, Brad Sigmon, CNN previously reported.
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Ashley R. Williams, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
Earlier this year, attorneys representing a group of South Carolina's death row inmates argued before the South Carolina Supreme Court that both electrocution and the firing squad as execution methods should constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
—CBS News, 19 Sep. 2024
Potts said Williams' case marked the first time it was used for someone on death row.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2024
One of the subjects is Kennedy Brewer, who was falsely accused of killing his girlfriend’s toddler in 1992 and spent 15 years in prison—eight of those years on death row—before DNA testing exonerated him in 2008.
—Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 11 Sep. 2024
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Ashley R. Williams, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
Earlier this year, attorneys representing a group of South Carolina's death row inmates argued before the South Carolina Supreme Court that both electrocution and the firing squad as execution methods should constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
—CBS News, 19 Sep. 2024
Potts said Williams' case marked the first time it was used for someone on death row.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2024
One of the subjects is Kennedy Brewer, who was falsely accused of killing his girlfriend’s toddler in 1992 and spent 15 years in prison—eight of those years on death row—before DNA testing exonerated him in 2008.
—Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 11 Sep. 2024
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“Death row.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20row. Accessed 27 Sep. 2024.
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