condemned cell

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condemned cell

a prison cell in which a person condemned to death awaits execution.

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Two cells in the main building were converted to condemned cells.

18 US soldiers hanged at camp during the war

Ten years later the death penalty was abolished, along with Holloway's condemned cells and execution shed.

The women of hell and Holloway; Suffragettes were force-fed here, the last woman to be hanged died here and Myra Hindley plotted to escape..

Beaumaris is a tiny place, perched on the edge of the straits, bit of a pier, stone seafront, chip shop hidden in an arcade, gaol with condemned cells and a treadmill.

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I recently visited the condemned cells at Poperinghe Town Hall, in France, where some of those lads were kept before being shot.

It's time to clear the lads' names

Men propound mathematical theorems in beleaguered cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on scaffolds.