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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Scott was placed on death row in 2001 and Springsteen sentenced to life behind bars a year later.
    — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 21 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • When was the last time Ohio executed someone, and how many people now sit on death row?
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 July 2023
  • The men executed in Florida this year were each on death row for decades.
    — Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
  • But that could soon change, with catastrophic consequences for Duncan and the 61 people left on the state’s death row.
    — Lara Bazelon, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The 26 people waiting on death row - some of them being there for decades -- would not be executed.
    — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 6 Feb. 2023
  • He was sentenced to death and is on death row awaiting execution.
    — Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2023
  • As part of his ministry, Hood reaches out to death row inmates who are about to be executed.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Courtney, when was the last time Ohio executed somebody and how many people now sit on death row?
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 July 2023
  • The tweet said that the families of prisoners on death row have gathered outside the Urmia Central Prison.
    — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • Creech was placed on death row for the beating death of an inmate in Ada County, per his online registry, which lists him as one of eight death row inmates in the state.
    — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Rodriguez was sitting on death row for 15 years when the judge who issued the sentence overturned the death penalty in an appeal ruling.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Idaho death row prisoner Thomas Creech claimed for years to have killed dozens of people but, as of a week ago, said the real number was fewer than 14.
    — Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Twelve years on San Quentin’s death row had taught him how easily old traumas are awakened by new assaults.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023

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