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death chamber

noun

  1. a room in which a person is dying or has died.
  2. a place, as in a prison, in which executions take place.


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In light of the court’s most recent ruling, Texas changed its policy again in April to allow clergy to enter the death chamber.

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Then the neutrophils do what scientists call an oxidative burst—inside that death chamber, they release active molecules called free radicals that destroy the bugs.

The Supreme Court said late Thursday night that Alabama could not execute a death row inmate without the man’s pastor by his side, and indicated that other states must find a way to honor final requests for a spiritual adviser in the death chamber.

In the death chamber, prison wardens strapped him to the gurney and administered the drugs as he repeated a Buddhist mantra.

I think I may be excused my temporary forgetfulness of the moan which had brought me to Forbes' death chamber.

When the door of the death-chamber was closed behind us, Adam seated himself, and I stood before him.

She spent more time than ever in the room which, waiting for its roving tenant, became more and more like a death chamber.

Frau van Beethoven and I only were in the death-chamber during the last moments of Beethovens life.

It was not like the murmur of day; it was rather like the gnawing of a mouse in the wainscot of some death chamber.

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