death chamber


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Noun1.death chamber - instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduceddeath chamber - instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced; used to kill people or animals
instrument of execution - an instrument designed and used to take the life of a condemned person
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To the very death chamber of O-Mai the Cruel we came and yet we were ready to go farther; when suddenly there broke upon our horrified ears the moans and the shrieking that mark these haunted chambers and the hangings moved and rustled in the dead air.
But he stopped on the landing; he had not the courage to again visit the death chamber. The two doctors, therefore, entered the room alone.
Even the woman who performed the last offices for the dead remarked to me, in a confidential, brother-professional way, when she had come out from the death chamber,
Arthur was expected at five o'clock, so a little before that time we visited the death chamber. It was so in very truth, for now both mother and daughter lay in it.
Farther on are the cells where the prisoners were confined, and the death chamber where the executions took place.
Several persons were visible by the shaded candlelight, in the death chamber of the old clergyman.
Half an hour later Negook and his uncle, Hadikwan, were ushered into the death chamber. They came unwillingly, Hans with his rifle herding them along.
EDT at the state's death chamber in Raiford, Florida.
Susanna Reid is in Texas, home to the most active death chamber in the United States, to meet Coble and grant him his final television interview.
Susanna Reid is in Texas, home to the most active death chamber in the US, to meet Coble and grant him his final television interview.
Susanna quizzes him about that night, and also interviews his son, Gordon, before experiencing an intense wait outside the death chamber, with some still praying he will be saved.
Not long after Piers talked to serial killers, Susanna went to Huntsville in Texas, home of the most active death chamber in the US.