death chair
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It is a melodrama involving a man accused of murder, snatched from the death chair, shielding another, a faithful girl� and all that.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even when the health authorities force immediate burial on account of danger from infectious diseases, the siling continues just the same with a dummy corpse in the death chair.
From Kankanay Ceremonies (American Archaeology and Ethnology) by Moss, C. R.
Accordingly, after a dramatic pause, to give stress to her next statement, she continued: 260 “There isn’t a death chair in the whole world can kill a cobbler.”
From Rose O'Paradise by White, Grace Miller
Except in the case of infants or very small children the dead are not buried immediately, but are put into a death chair around which funeral rites are held.
From Kankanay Ceremonies (American Archaeology and Ethnology) by Moss, C. R.
