How to Use death row in a Sentence

death row

noun

• But a year and a half later, Johnson was still on death row.
  — al, 20 Apr. 2022
• Last month, the court said states must accommodate the wishes of death row inmates who want to have their faith leaders pray and touch them during their executions.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2022
• Leach and Moody were among a group of seven lawmakers who last week visited Lucio on women’s death row in Gatesville, Texas.
  — Juan A. Lozano, Chron, 13 Apr. 2022
• If all five executions proceed, the U.S. will have executed 18 death row inmates this year.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
• Oklahoma’s highest criminal court refused to accept Drummond’s arguments and kept Glossip on death row.
  — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 9 Oct. 2024
• In a high-profile death penalty case last year, Barrett joined with the court's liberal wing and sided with a death row inmate in Alabama who sued to have a pastor at his execution.
  — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2022
• Richard Bernard Moore, who has remained on death row for more than two decades, was asked to decide between the two methods two weeks ahead of his scheduled execution on April 29.
  — Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 16 Apr. 2022
• But the court’s emergency rulings and periodic concurrences left the public with limited insight into the scope of death row prisoners’ religious rights.
  — Madeleine Carlisle, Time, 24 Mar. 2022
• Joseph Corcoran, of Allen County, is the first person on death row to be executed in Indiana in 15 years.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Potts said Williams' case marked the first time it was used for someone on death row.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024