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Princeton's WordNet

  1. death house, death rownoun

    the cellblock in a prison where those condemned to death await execution

Wiktionary

  1. death rownoun

    the section of a prison which houses those inmates who are sentenced to death

Wikipedia

  1. Death row

    Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death. The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution ("being on death row"), even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists. In the United States, after an individual is found guilty of a capital offense in states where execution is a legal penalty, the judge will give the jury the option of imposing a death sentence or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. It is then up to the jury to decide whether to give the death sentence; this usually has to be a unanimous decision. If the jury agrees on death, the defendant will remain on death row during appeal and habeas corpus procedures, which may continue for several decades. Opponents of capital punishment claim that a prisoner's isolation and uncertainty over their fate constitute a form of psychological abuse and that especially long-time death row inmates are prone to develop a mental disorder, if they do not already suffer from such a condition. This is referred to as the death row phenomenon. Estimations reveal that five to ten percent of all inmates on death row suffer from mental illness. Some inmates may attempt suicide. There have been some calls for a ban on the imposition of the death penalty for inmates with mental illness and also case law such as Atkins v. Virginia to further this. Executions still take place for those with clear intellectual disabilities due to poor legal representation and high standards of proof.

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  1. death row

    Death row refers to a section of a prison reserved for inmates who are awaiting execution after being sentenced to death for committing a crime(s), typically capital offenses. The length of stay there varies, often for many years, while the convicted person exhausts all appeal processes.

Wikidata

  1. Death row

    Death row, in English-speaking countries that have capital punishment, is the place, often a section of a prison, that houses prisoners awaiting execution. The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution, even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists. After persons are found guilty of an offense and sentenced to death, they remain on death row during appeal and habeas corpus procedures, and if those are unsuccessful, until execution. Opponents of capital punishment claim that a prisoner's isolation and uncertainty over his or her fate constitute a form of mental cruelty and that especially long-time death row inmates are liable to become mentally ill, if they are not already. This is referred to as the death row phenomenon. In extreme cases some inmates may attempt suicide. In the United States, prisoners may wait years before execution can be carried out due to the complex, expensive, and time-consuming appeals procedures mandated in the jurisdiction. The time between sentencing and execution has increased relatively steadily between 1977 and 2010, including a 22% jump between 1989 and 1990 and a similar jump between 2008 and 2009. In 2010, a death row inmate waited an average of 178 months between sentencing and execution. Nearly a quarter of deaths on death row in the U.S. are due to natural causes.

Rap Dictionary

  1. death row

    To be on death row is to have a set date of death by electric chair or lethal injection from any correctional facility.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of death row in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of death row in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of death row in a Sentence

  1. Randy Steidl:

    When Judge McCuskey granted me a new trial, I was still holding my breath. 'Cause I'd watched guys on death row get a new trial and have the attorney general appeal it and have it taken away. And within 60 days, they're strapped to a gurney being executed.

  2. Ray Hinton:

    I shouldn't have sat on death row for 30 years, all they had to do was test the gun.

  3. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf:

    Numerous recent studies have called into question the accuracy and fundamental fairness of Pennsylvania's capital sentencing system, these studies suggest that inherent biases affect the makeup of death row. While data is incomplete, there are strong indications that a person is more likely to be charged with a capital offense and sentenced to death if he is poor or of a minority racial group, and particularly where the victim of the crime was Caucasian.

  4. Michale Callahan:

    The magnitude of Randy's story, or any wrongful death row conviction that's tainted by police or prosecutorial misconduct, is that the government officials guilty of that conduct are really no better than those who commit cold-blooded murder.

  5. Ken Rose:

    We must re-examine a system that let an innocent man sit on death row for 30 years, how many more innocent people are still awaiting execution?


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