electric chairs
Lethal voltage furniture
Electric chairs are devices used to execute condemned prisoners by passing lethal electrical current through the body.
The prisoner is strapped into a wooden chair with electrodes attached to the head and leg.
Once the predominant method of execution in the United States, electric chairs have largely been replaced by lethal injection, though some states retain them as an option.
He was sentenced to the electric chair.
- executionsLegally sanctioned killings
- lethalityAbility to cause death
- electrocutionDeath from electrical current
- Old SparkyElectric chair's grim nickname
- currentDirected flow of charge
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