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Date: 6 July 2007: Source: Map from Blank US Map.svg by Theshibboleth.; Information from File:US electric chair usage.png by Evil Monkey and Shadowlink1014 who credited deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu as the source.
Electric chair at the Florida State Prison. The electric chair is a specialized device used for capital punishment through electrocution. The condemned is strapped to a custom wooden chair and electrocuted via electrodes attached to the head and leg. Alfred P. Southwick, a Buffalo, New York dentist, conceived this execution method in 1881.
The electric chair was the sole means of execution in Florida from 1924 until 2000, when the Florida State Legislature, under pressure from the U.S. Supreme Court, signed lethal injection into law. Although no one has been executed in this manner since 1999, prisoners awaiting execution on Florida's death row may still be electrocuted at their ...
Methods vary by state, federal, and military policy, but include lethal injection, electric chair, firing squad, gas chamber and inert gas asphyxiation. Federal law provides the death penalty for many homicide-related crimes, espionage, treason, terrorism, murder, robbery (when it results in death), and extreme cases of drug trafficking (when ...
Electric chair chamber at Tennessee State Prison (2007), after the chair was removed. The electric chair at the Tennessee State Prison in Nashville also was nicknamed "Old Smokey", [20] and was used to execute 125 people for capital punishment in Tennessee between July 13, 1916 (Julius Morgan) [21] and November 7, 1960 (William Tines).
Ted Bundy was one of the most notorious serial killers in history. He murdered more than 30 women between the years of 1974 and 1978, according to Biography.. In 1989, The 42-year-old "lady killer ...
A bill making electrocution New York State's form of execution passed the legislature and was signed by Governor Hill on June 4, 1888, set to go into effect on January 1, 1889. The first individual to be executed in the electric chair was William Kemmler, on August 6, 1890. Current was passed through Kemmler for 17 seconds and he was declared ...
Old Sparky, the electric chair used at Sing Sing prison. In 1890, New York became the first state to use the electric chair as a means of execution. Though it took two surges of electricity lasting nearly two minutes to kill William Kemmler, the electric chair replaced hanging as the most efficient and preferred method of execution in the ...