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electric chair

noun as in chair for executions

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She was sentenced to the electric chair but it was later commuted to a life sentence.

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He had requested death by firing squad over the other two state-approved methods of execution: electric chair and lethal injection.

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The film suggests Cohn’s last great achievement was his first — sending both of the Rosenbergs to the electric chair in 1953.

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Inmates in South Carolina are allowed to choose whether they want to die by lethal injection, electric chair or firing squad.

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“Guys,” he said from the recording booth, “I don’t know that we should be talking about sending babies to the electric chair. Maybe we could just do ‘Should a baby get tried for matricide?’”

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