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electric chair

noun as in chair for executions

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The film suggests Cohn’s last great achievement was his first — sending both of the Rosenbergs to the electric chair in 1953.

From Salon

Inmates in South Carolina are allowed to choose whether they want to die by lethal injection, electric chair or firing squad.

From BBC

“Guys,” he said from the recording booth, “I don’t know that we should be talking about sending babies to the electric chair. Maybe we could just do ‘Should a baby get tried for matricide?’”

She also longed for Obama to be executed by electric chair.

From Salon

The wooden electric chair where he was put to death.

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

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