death cell

noun

1. a prison cell for criminals sentenced to death

Example Sentences

"They're killing him softly in solitary confinement in this death cell," she told the BBC in July 2023, after he had been allowed to call his family for the first time in two years.

From BBC

"They're killing him softly in solitary confinement in this death cell. But even if he survives that, they're killing him by hanging him from a crane in public," she said.

From BBC

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

After the coronation, the death cell prisoners will be executed—which means that unless the Resistance gets him out of prison, Darin will die tomorrow.

From Literature