death row
Awaiting execution housing
Death row is the section of a prison housing inmates sentenced to death, or the status of being under such a sentence: He spent eighteen years on death row before his execution.
The term extends figuratively to anything facing imminent elimination: The program is on death row after budget cuts.
Capital punishment by needle
- electric chairElectrocution execution device
- gas chamberSealed execution room using poison
- firing squadGroup executing by gunshot
- gallowsExecution hanging apparatus
last meal · last words · execution date · execution chamber · executioner · gurney · final moments · condemned
Firmly held belief
- sentenceComplete thought, grammatically
- verdictOfficial court decision
- appealFormal review request
- clemencyMerciful treatment of offenders
capital offense · prosecution · defense · courtroom · judge · jury · testimony · evidence
Basic unit of life
- solitaryExisting alone, apart
- confinementState of being restricted
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- wardenSupervisory custodian of place
guard · inmate · convict · prisoner · bars · custody · isolation · correctional facility
Execution by legal authority
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
- human rightsInalienable personal freedoms
- innocenceFreedom from wrongdoing
- exonerationOfficial clearing of blame
wrongful conviction · racism · bias · deterrence · retribution · activism · protest · morality
State of awaiting something
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- countdownBackward enumeration to zero
- limboState of uncertain waiting
- uncertaintyState of being unsure
reprieve · stay of execution · pardon · appeal process · years · decades · vigil · hope
lethal injection
Capital punishment by needle
- electric chairElectrocution execution device
- gas chamberSealed execution room using poison
- firing squadGroup executing by gunshot
gallows · last meal · last words · execution date · execution chamber · executioner · gurney · final moments · condemned
conviction
Firmly held belief
clemency · capital offense · prosecution · defense · courtroom · judge · jury · testimony · evidence · guilty
cell
Basic unit of life
- solitaryExisting alone, apart
- confinementState of being restricted
- prisonConfinement for offenders
warden · guard · inmate · convict · prisoner · bars · custody · isolation · correctional facility · visitation
capital punishment
Execution by legal authority
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
- human rightsInalienable personal freedoms
- innocenceFreedom from wrongdoing
exoneration · wrongful conviction · racism · bias · deterrence · retribution · activism · protest · morality · ethics
anticipation
State of awaiting something
uncertainty · reprieve · stay of execution · pardon · appeal process · years · decades · vigil · hope · despair
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, prison, prisoner
- Incarcerationcell blocks, prison conditions, prison guards, prison labor, prison reform
- penologypenology, prisons, incarceration, parole board, prison
- California PrisonsSan Quentin, Alcatraz, state prison, state prisons, correctional facilities
- crime datacrime trends, arrest rate, incarceration rate, violent crime rate, property crime
- executionexecution, lethal injection, firing squad, gas chamber, electric chair
death rowgeneral population
Average citizens collectively
minimum security · open prison · work release · halfway house · protective custody
death rowfreedom
Absence of constraint
exoneration · acquittal · commutation · pardon · clemency
death rowacquittal
Formal clearing of charges
exoneration · innocence · not guilty verdict · charges dropped · case dismissed