The gearbox has the momentous, latch-in-place action of a switch for an electric chair.
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That had been a "chilling and intimidating" reference to capital punishment by the electric chair, he added.
His brother Gary had rigged up an electric chair with a train transformer.
It's thanks to him that today ten states (down from 26 in 1949) permit use of the electric chair on criminals.
It's because of him that today 10 states (down from 26 in 1949) permit the use of the electric chair for executions.
Extradited to Memphis, he avoided a jury trial - and possibly the electric chair - by entering a guilty plea the following year.
The walls were painted green, and in the center of the room, where an electric chair used to be, was a sheeted gurney.
Virginia uses lethal injection to execute prisoners unless the inmate requests the electric chair, and has carried out 89 executions since the practice resumed in 1982.
Before he died in 1905, Verne had depicted--in some 60 novels--a world eerily like ours: airplanes, movies, guided missiles, submarines, the electric chair, air conditioning and the fax machine.
The method was pioneered in the United States, where it is considered a more modern and presumably more humane means of execution than the electric chair or the gas chamber.
One of the considerations was the relative safety of direct current - the first electric chair seems to have been built (and then used) to prove that alternating current was more of a killer.
Anti-death penalty activists say lethal injections - introduced in Florida and other states as a replacement for the electric chair and other methods of execution - are just as cruel and should not be considered a more humane substitute.
And even if Beth does manage to get the electric chair she wants she will not be allowed it unless she also gets an electric chair for use indoors despite the fact that she can use her walking frame indoors.
Ms. DAHLIA LITHWICK (Legal Analyst, Slate): That's right, Alex, and 37 of the 38 states that currently have the death penalty, this is their preferred method of execution, but prisoners are complaining that it doesn't work, that it's causing a tremendous amount of pain, more so than was present in death sentences using the electric chair or gas.
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