The author, who had been in prison for eleven years, was kept on death row because he had served two years in the long-term section of the prison and thus only spent nine years on death row.
提交人虽然已被关押11年，但仍被留在死囚牢房，因为他曾经在长期徒刑犯人监狱服刑两年，因而只在死囚牢房关押了九年。