死刑囚

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 死刑囚, read しけいしゅう, is a prisoner who has been sentenced to death.
• Basic usage: It identifies the inmate a reporter seeks to visit or the condemned person whose letter anchors a play.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• A person imprisoned under a death sentence
  • This denotes a prisoner under a death sentence, such as the inmate visited by a reporter or writing a letter in a play. It is not every criminal suspect or someone already executed.