electric chair

Example Sentences

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To offer one more example, when the electric chair was first used, Edwin Davis, the man who built the device, obtained a patent for it in 1897.

From Slate • May 6, 2025

“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

There are the stories of the many lawyers and activists who fought to save Paula from the electric chair and end capital punishment for children.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2023

But by the late 1970s and early 1980s, problems with executions using the electric chair made headlines everywhere.

From Salon • Dec. 15, 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