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
death house
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death house
noun
See death row.
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Noun
(plural death houses)
- Syn. death row.
- A holding area in a prison for condemned prisoners in the time immediately prior to execution.
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