How to Use death row in a Sentence

death row

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  • As for Sheila, the sister who helped put him on death row?
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Hunter, now 54, spent more than 15 years on Ohio’s death row.
    — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 15 June 2023
  • One third of his death row cases were found to be flawed.
    — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2024
  • In his cell on death row, her boyfriend kept a cellphone.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • This idea comes to me in the middle of the night: Guy on death row, 10 days left to live, crazy, wacky prison guard.
    — Lizzie Hyman, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2023
  • For starters, John Cusack's not on death row, at least from the looks of the trailer.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 29 May 2024
  • Miller has been returned to his cell on death row, Hamm said.
    — Tina Burnside and Dakin Andone, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Scott was placed on death row in 2001, and Springsteen was sentenced to life in prison the next year.
    — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Silva has been on death row for more than three decades.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Adults on death row in Texas get at least an hour a week outdoors.
    — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 29 June 2023
  • Davis was convicted of her killing in 1996 and sent to San Quentin’s death row.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 31 May 2024
  • Kraft, 78, remains on death row at San Quentin State Prison.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • McLaughlin transitioned in the past few years while on death row.
    — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured and found guilty of murder, and is on death row.
    — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Rodney Alcala had been on death row for more than 30 years.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 14 May 2024
  • Armstrong’s cell — No. 10 — is slightly larger than the one on death row.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • He was arrested and sent to state prison, where he was housed on death row and tortured.
    — Jake Silverstein, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Here is a list of the Iranians who have been executed and those who are on death row.
    — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2023
  • No one has been willing to say yet whether the state still has Creech in their sights among Idaho’s nine-member death row.
    — Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 12 June 2024
  • As was agreed upon, Alcala was returned to San Quentin's death row.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 14 May 2024
  • Scott was placed on death row in 2001 and Springsteen sentenced to life behind bars a year later.
    — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The prison is also where most of Alabama’s 165 death row inmates are housed.
    — Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al, 19 Aug. 2022
  • In 2004, the New York Court of Appeals abolished the death penalty, and there is currently no one on death row in the state prison system.
    — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Current numbers on death row are also not known, rights groups say.
    — Heather Chen, CNN, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Even so, Polunsky remains home to one of the most restrictive death rows in the nation.
    — Keri Blakinger, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Somebody on death row has more rights than a person put under a guardianship.
    — Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024
  • That has become a factor in lawsuits filed by death row inmates.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Hear the chilling tapes of Ted Bundy explain his own perspective and motives as he was held in prison on death row.
    — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Ernest Dykes, 51, was among three men whose decades-long tenure on death row appears to be at an end, Price announced Tuesday.
    — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 16 July 2024
  • By week's end, the country will have executed 11 death row inmates.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 16 July 2024

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