electric chair
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Twelve years later, in a case called In re Kemmler, the first person scheduled to die in the electric chair asked the court to strike down that method.
From Slate • Aug. 4, 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
The state asked the Supreme Court to toss out a lower court ruling after a 2022 trial that the electric chair and the firing squad are cruel and unusual punishments.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
