death row inmate
Awaiting capital punishment
A death row inmate is a prisoner who has been sentenced to death and awaits execution.
Such prisoners typically spend years or decades in a specialized section of a prison while appeals proceed: The death row inmate had exhausted his final appeal.
The term emphasizes both the condemned status and the limbo of waiting.
- condemnedOfficially declared unfit
- executionCompleting a planned task
- execution dateScheduled time for sentencing
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- prison cellLocked room for inmates
maximum security · lethal injection · electric chair · appeals · cell · last meal · final statement · clemency · pardon · conviction · murderer · guilty · sentence · awaiting · legal appeals · shackles · solitary · chaplain
- captivesprisoner, captive, detainee, hostage, POW
- executionexecution, lethal injection, firing squad, gas chamber, electric chair
- oppressedslave, serf, captive, prisoner, hostage
- criminalsmurderer, thief, burglar, criminal, killer
death row inmatenewborn
Infant just delivered
parolee · lifer · survivor · centenarian
death row inmateexecutioner
One who kills condemned
judge · warden · prosecutor · governor · prison guard
death row inmatesaint
Canonized holy person
hero · humanitarian · lifesaver · pillar of the community · martyr
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