After the criminal defendant was sentenced to death, he was transferred to death row.
death row
Definition
The section of a prison the holds prisoners who have been sentenced to death and are awaiting execution.
Definition from Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary
The portion of a prison that houses prisoners who are under death sentences and are awaiting appeals or execution.
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August 19, 2010, 5:14 pm
“Further, we summarily deny as without merit Thompson’s remaining claims stricken by the trial court; specifically, his claims that his 31 years on death row violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, that legal injection violates the Eighth Amendment, and that the ABA report on the death penalty constitutes newly discovered evidence.” Thompson v. State, 3 So.3d 1237, 1238-39 (Fla. 2009).
