How to Use death row in a Sentence

death row

noun

• Limited how some death row inmates and others sentenced to lengthy prison terms can pursue claims that their lawyers did a poor job representing them.
  — Mark Sherman, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2022
• In opposing the death penalty, some opponents cite cases in which convicts on death row are exonerated in light of new evidence.
  — David Nakamura, Anchorage Daily News, 5 July 2022
• Approximately 111 inmates remain on death row in the state, according to the news release.
  — Jennifer Henderson, CNN, 8 June 2022
• During his first year as governor, Newsom placed a moratorium on death row executions.
  — Taryn Lunastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2022
• The trio spent years in prison, including Echols who was on death row, until their release in 2011 after agreeing to a deal known as an Alford Plea.
  — Lara Farrar, Arkansas Online, 24 June 2022
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• By week's end, the country will have executed 11 death row inmates.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 16 July 2024
• Despite the Atkins decision and Florida’s own law on the issue, death row prisoners claiming to be mentally disabled still face an obstacle of legalisms contrived to favor the executioner.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Sep 2024