How to Use death row in a Sentence

death row

noun

• Almost 40% of the men on death row were sentenced in the ‘90s.
  — John Myers, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 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
• The jury agreed, and Jones remains on death row to this day.
  — cincinnati.com, 8 Feb. 2022
• 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
• Potts said Williams' case marked the first time it was used for someone on death row.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2024
• That man, Ralph Menzies, has been on death row for 34 years.
  — Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Feb. 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
• But a year and a half later, Johnson was still on death row.
  — al, 20 Apr. 2022
• Kraft, 78, remains on death row at San Quentin State Prison.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2023
• Jones's case:A federal court saved a man from death row.
  — Joseph Darius Jaafari, The Arizona Republic, 23 May 2022
• Lucio was found guilty, and she's been on Texas' death row ever since.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN, 20 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Almost three dozen have been death row inmates for 40 years or longer.
  — John Myers, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• Her goal is to join the team working to free Michael Dandridge, who’s been on death row for 11 years for rape and murder.
  — Sun Sentinel, 1 June 2022
• 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
• On Monday, Williams was one of 10 people on death row in Missouri.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
• Lucio, who had no prior prison record, is one of six women on death row in Texas.
  — NBC News, 22 Mar. 2022
• In some circles, his death row writing was greeted with rapture.
  — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2024
• Bartell also pointed to Kevin Cooper, a Black man on death row for killing a white family, as well as marijuana convictions of Black men.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024