Translation guide
A person who has been sentenced to death for a crime. In Japanese, this is expressed with specific legal terms or descriptive phrases.
Referring to a criminal who has received a death sentence, especially in legal or news contexts.
Standard term for a death-row inmate or condemned prisoner. Used in legal and media contexts.
その死刑囚は刑の執行を待っている。
The condemned prisoner is awaiting execution.
Descriptive phrase: 'criminal who received a death sentence'. More explicit than 死刑囚.
死刑判決を受けた犯罪者は控訴した。
The criminal condemned to death appealed the sentence.
Literary or historical phrasing: 'one who was sentenced to death'. Rare in modern speech.
死罪に処せられた者は牢獄で最期を待った。
The one condemned to death awaited his end in prison.
Do not translate 'criminal condemned to death' word-for-word as 死に非難された犯罪者. This is unnatural and not used in Japanese.