How to Use death row in a Sentence

death row

noun

• An Alabama inmate has been removed from death row under a new deal.
  — al, 19 Nov. 2021
• If prosecuted on murder charges, Foster could end up back on death row.
  — Jolie McCullough, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Nov. 2021
• The following year, she was placed back on death row and remained there until 2000.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2024
• The state plans to retry Glossip if his conviction is vacated, but a ruling in Glossip’s favor will get him off death row for now.
  — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 9 Oct. 2024
• Moments before a Tennessee judge freed him from death row, Pervis Payne walked into a courtroom, hugged his lawyer and wept.
  — Adrian Sainz, ajc, 23 Nov. 2021
• But there is no doubt of the sudden explosion of violence that followed, detailed by Mr. Spencer in a cellphone video recorded from death row last year.
  — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2021
• Last week, a correctional officer at Holman was charged with smuggling meth into the prison, which houses the state’s death row population, and distributing it to an inmate.
  — Abigail Brooks, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The now 49-year-old has spent nearly two decades on death row for the crime.
  — CBS News, 8 Dec. 2021
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024