electric chair
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“As soon as Dara and I walked into his house, the electric chair from ‘Female Trouble’ was right in front of us.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2023
The electric chair also had its share of problems.
From Slate ● Dec. 21, 2022
But by the late 1970s and early 1980s, problems with executions using the electric chair made headlines everywhere.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2022
In 1983, Ms. Piel persuaded a judge to issue a stay of their execution 16 hours before the defendants were set to die in the electric chair.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2022
He said that if he was executed as scheduled, he wanted me to get the prison to play a recording of a hymn, “The Old Rugged Cross,” as he walked to the electric chair.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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