electrocutioner

It is conducted with a barbarism that would horrify the electrocutioner in Louisiana, with whom I once debated on the topic of his trade.

When the shock was at its height, his grip tightened to the crucifix, but as the electrocutioner snapped the switch off the cross slipped from the relaxed fingers.

Ninety-nine times out of a hundred all that can happen is a mild electric shock but there is always the one chance in thousands that by so doing you may be your own electrocutioner.