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 in American English
noun
a building or part of a prison in which persons condemned to death await execution
Word origin
[1915–20]This word is first recorded in the period 1915–20. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: GI, camouflage, conditioning, decoder, supernationalism