condemned prisoner
Awaiting the gallows
A condemned prisoner is someone who has been sentenced to death and awaits execution.
The term emphasizes finality—the legal process has concluded, and the outcome is fixed: The condemned prisoner was granted a last meal.
Sometimes shortened to simply the condemned.
- death rowHousing for condemned prisoners
- death sentenceJudicial order of execution
- executionCompleting a planned task
- capital punishmentExecution by legal authority
- gallowsExecution hanging apparatus
green mile · dead man walking · execution date · lethal injection · last meal · last words · last rites · appeals · pardon · sentence · electric chair · warden · cell · shackles · reprieve · clemency · guilty · verdict
- captivescaptive, inmate, detainee, hostage, POW
- executionexecution, lethal injection, firing squad, gas chamber, electric chair
- executionsexecution, execution chamber, hanging, guillotine, executioner
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