electric chair
Lethal voltage apparatus
The electric chair is a device used for executing condemned prisoners by passing lethal electrical current through their body.
The prisoner is strapped into a wooden chair with electrodes attached to the head and leg.
First used in New York in 1890, it was once the dominant method of capital punishment in the United States but has largely been replaced by lethal injection.
He was sentenced to the electric chair.
Housing for condemned prisoners
- capital punishmentExecution by legal authority
- lethal injectionCapital punishment by needle
- gas chamberSealed execution room using poison
- guillotineVertical beheading apparatus
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Execution by legal authority
- crueltyDeliberate harm-causing disposition
- human rightsInalienable personal freedoms
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
- moratoriumTemporary prohibition or delay
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Violent sudden disturbance
- horrorExtreme fear or disgust
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- terrorExtreme, overwhelming fear
- nightmareFrightening dream causing wakefulness
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death row
Housing for condemned prisoners
- capital punishmentExecution by legal authority
- lethal injectionCapital punishment by needle
- gas chamberSealed execution room using poison
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capital punishment
Execution by legal authority
- crueltyDeliberate harm-causing disposition
- human rightsInalienable personal freedoms
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
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shock
Violent sudden disturbance
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conviction
Firmly held belief
- sentenceComplete thought, grammatically
- trialJudicial examination of claims
- verdictOfficial court decision
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- executionexecution, lethal injection, firing squad, gas chamber, the chair
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- executionsexecution, execution chamber, hanging, guillotine, executioner
- punishment toolswhip, chains, shackles, rack, stocks
- dangersdanger, peril, hazard, risk, menace
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Capital punishment by needle
guillotine · hanging · firing squad · gas chamber · beheading
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Official release from punishment
commutation · clemency · reprieve · acquittal · exoneration
electric chairprobation
Supervised trial period
community service · fine · suspended sentence · rehabilitation · house arrest
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