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
But by the late 1970s and early 1980s, problems with executions using the electric chair made headlines everywhere.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2022
In 1983, Ms. Piel persuaded a judge to issue a stay of their execution 16 hours before the defendants were set to die in the electric chair.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2022
He zooms his electric chair around the raggedy old snowman, tossing Velcroed stars and bells at it, asking, “Snowman go zoom zoom?”
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
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