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death chair

noun as in electric chair

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That machine has about as much of the human element as a meat-chopper, as a steam- roller, as the death-chair at Sing Sing.

That is why there are so many "men of God" in our jails, and why so many have paid the supreme penalty in the death chair.

So Jones will spend his days in prison, though he will escape the death chair.

When everything is in readiness the criminal is brought in and seats himself in the death-chair.

That messenger was without doubt some one over whom he holds the threat of the death chair.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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