condemned cell
Execution awaiting room
A condemned cell is a prison cell where an inmate awaiting execution is held.
The term is primarily British; Americans more often say death row cell.
The condemned cell isolates the prisoner during their final days or hours: He spent his last night in the condemned cell.
- death rowHousing for condemned prisoners
- dead man walkingPrisoner heading to execution
- green milePath to execution
- gallowsExecution hanging apparatus
- executionCompleting a planned task
prisoner · inmate · scaffold · hangman · last meal · last rites · awaiting · dungeon · shackles · bars · solitary · warden · noose · lethal injection · chains · death watch · darkness · stone walls
- imprisonmentprison, jail, prisoners, captivity, dungeons
- executionexecution, lethal injection, firing squad, gas chamber, electric chair
- execution equipmentelectric chair, gallows, guillotine, gas chamber, lethal injection
- executionsexecution, execution chamber, hanging, guillotine, executioner
condemned cellfreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · free world · acquittal · exoneration · open society
condemned cellgeneral population
Average citizens collectively
open prison · gen pop · minimum security · halfway house · rehabilitation center
condemn, condemned, condemning, condemns, condemnation, condemnatory, damnable, damned, damning