electric chair
a chair used to electrocute criminals sentenced to death.
the penalty of legal electrocution.
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The electric chair was the only method offered to Sigmon in accordance with the state’s new capital punishment law, which effectively made it the default manner of execution.
South Carolina Inmate’s Electric Chair Execution Is Halted—Until a Firing Squad Is Available | Allison Quinn | June 17, 2021 | The Daily BeastTwo days before South Carolina death row inmate Brad Sigmon was due to be put to death in the state’s 109-year-old electric chair, he won a rare reprieve from the state’s Supreme Court.
South Carolina Inmate’s Electric Chair Execution Is Halted—Until a Firing Squad Is Available | Allison Quinn | June 17, 2021 | The Daily Beast“What’s going on is you’re fixing to ride the lightning, son,” Gutierrez yelled at him, a foreboding reference to capital punishment and the electric chair.
Arrogance and entitlement are the diseases in American policing | Petula Dvorak | April 12, 2021 | Washington PostA malfunctioning electric chair necessitated the use of three separate jolts instead of the usual one, setting fire to the condemned man before the execution could be carried out.
Haunted by a grisly execution, an investigator decides to dig deeper | Daniel Stashower | March 5, 2021 | Washington PostI was once rewarded for some help with a visit to it, and sat in the electric chair for a moment.
On view in Queens, a small, dark “Little electric chair” reminds us of that body of work.
The Most Wanted Warhol: A Scandal at the 1964 World’s Fair | Jessica Dawson | April 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe assumption was that an electric chair death would occur by jolting the heart into stopping.
The main approaches to execution since the guillotine have been hanging, the firing squad, and the electric chair.
When he discovered electricity it took him less than a decade to discover the electric chair.
What Happens to the Death Penalty When Lethal Injection Isn’t Quick and Painless? | Andrew Cohen | January 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIf you were to do that in this State it would be the electric chair for yours.
Frank Merriwell's Pursuit | Burt L. StandishThe circumstantial evidence was as complete as any that ever sent a criminal to the gallows or the electric chair.
The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico | Lieut. Howard PaysonLike an electric chair, the phlebostasis chair was supplied with cuffs for both arms and legs.
And sure enough a day or two later I was put in the electric chair for "reactions."
"Over There" with the Australians | R. Hugh KnyvettAny one who puts the extinguisher on Matson would go to the electric chair sure, and nothing could save him.
Baseball Joe in the World Series | Lester Chadwick
British Dictionary definitions for electric chair
an electrified chair for executing criminals
the electric chair execution by this method
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