A cell occupied by a prisoner who has been condemned to death or who awaits execution.
死囚牢
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Everyone is familiar with Cruikshank's great illustration of the prisoner in his death cell, ‘the night before he was stretched’.
He then spoke to the officials and after what appeared to some to be strong words the seven were picked out and returned to prison, but not to death cells.
Graffiti written by despairing men still adorns the walls of the two ‘death cells’.
In the Atkins trial, Scalia noted, the jury had been given testimony on the murderer's mental capacity but had regarded it as insufficient in detaining the defendant from the death cell.
The Bentley family's doomed struggle for a reprieve is powerfully reconstructed, as are Bentley's last days in his death cell.