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The electric chair was adopted by Ohio (1897), Massachusetts (1900), New Jersey (1906), and Virginia (1908), and soon became the prevalent method of execution in the United States, replacing hanging. Twenty-six states, the District of Columbia, the federal government, and the U.S. military either had death by electrocution on the books or ...
Ohio was the second state to adopt the electric chair as a means of execution, executing 315 people between 1897 and its last use was in 1963. The state stopped using the electric chair in 2001, and now exclusively utilizes lethal injection in executions. Ohio's Old Sparky is now a museum exhibit in the Ohio State Reformatory.
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Only 28 people were ever executed by the state of Ohio via hanging before the state switched to the electric chair in 1897. "That the mode of inflicting the punishment of death in all cases under this act, shall be by hanging by the neck, until the person so to be punished shall be dead; & the sheriff, or the coroner in the case of the death, inability or absence of the sheriff of the proper ...
Ted Bundy was executed via electric chair on January 24, 1989. The infamous serial killer, who murdered more than 30 women, was sentenced to capital punishment in Florida State Prison.
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South Carolina’s death row inmates will have to choose between two controversial execution methods — the electric chair or a firing squad — until the state is able to buy lethal injection ...