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death cell

noun

  1. a prison cell for criminals sentenced to death


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The condemned man does not see any of the details of the execution when he enters the death cell.

All about you it stretches: a cell,—a death-cell, from which escape is impossible!

He stands less chance of going to prison, or to a death cell.

When they put a feller in the death-cell they pass in the finest chuck in the land.

The natural, warm scent of her body came through the fragrance of the oils with which she had been anointed in her death cell.

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