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☆ death house

the section of a prison containing an execution chamber and the cells in which persons condemned to die are housed in the days just before their execution

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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