Question of the Day #805

Pervis Payne is no longer on death row.

From the first paragraph of this article at the Scientific American.

  上記の文で、death rowの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "death row" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

〈米〉死刑囚監房

下記英語の定義にあるように、普通は前置詞のonを使います。   

Answer

According to Merriam-Webster:

a prison area housing inmates sentenced to death —usually used with on

 

Examples

• He has been on Death Row for 11 years.
• Most death row inmates avoid execution for many years by filing several appeals. 
• He spent 15 years on death row before the sentence was commuted to life. - Times, Sunday Times (2014)
• That number includes the 116 inmates already moved from death row. — Mason Bissada, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• An Alabama inmate has been removed from death row under a new deal. — al, 19 Nov. 2021

 

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