How to Use death row in a Sentence
death row
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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
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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
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Approximately 111 inmates remain on death row in the state, according to the news release.
—Jennifer Henderson, CNN, 8 June 2022
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During his first year as governor, Newsom placed a moratorium on death row executions.
—Taryn Lunastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2022
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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
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As for Sheila, the sister who helped put him on death row?
—Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2023
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Hunter, now 54, spent more than 15 years on Ohio’s death row.
—Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 15 June 2023
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One third of his death row cases were found to be flawed.
—Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2024
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In his cell on death row, her boyfriend kept a cellphone.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
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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
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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
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Miller has been returned to his cell on death row, Hamm said.
—Tina Burnside and Dakin Andone, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
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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
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Silva has been on death row for more than three decades.
—Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2022
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Adults on death row in Texas get at least an hour a week outdoors.
—Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 29 June 2023
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Davis was convicted of her killing in 1996 and sent to San Quentin’s death row.
—Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 31 May 2024
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Kraft, 78, remains on death row at San Quentin State Prison.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2023
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McLaughlin transitioned in the past few years while on death row.
—Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2023
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured and found guilty of murder, and is on death row.
—Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2022
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Rodney Alcala had been on death row for more than 30 years.
—Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 14 May 2024
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Armstrong’s cell — No. 10 — is slightly larger than the one on death row.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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As was agreed upon, Alcala was returned to San Quentin's death row.
—Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 14 May 2024
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Scott was placed on death row in 2001 and Springsteen sentenced to life behind bars a year later.
—Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 21 Aug. 2023
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The prison is also where most of Alabama’s 165 death row inmates are housed.
—Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al, 19 Aug. 2022
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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
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By week's end, the country will have executed 11 death row inmates.
—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 16 July 2024
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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
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