Temporary buildings had been thrown up, and then had remained, decaying into deathtraps.
"Police Your Planet"
Lester del Rey
Haitian prisons were deathtraps.
"Plotting in Pirate Seas"
Francis Rolt-Wheeler
For ten years Yermoloff carried on this tribal war with inflexible rigour, by expeditions to punish some marauding village, which was razed to the ground, and most of the men, women and children burnt or killed after defending the place with the fury of despair; by night marches to surprise and storm the hill forts; by exterminating bands of brigands; and more than once by laying deathtraps for notorious rebels or fanatics.
"Studies in Literature and History"
Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall