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  2. Electric chair - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Alfred P. Southwick - Wikipedia

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    They explored many forms of execution and in 1888 recommended electrocution using Southwick's electric-chair idea with metal conductors attached to the condemned person's head and feet. With their advice, the first law allowing the use of electrocution went into effect in New York State on January 1, 1889. [ 2 ]

  4. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Through his family associations, young Leuchter claimed he was able to witness an execution performed in an electric chair. Leuchter's impression of the event was that the electric chairs used by American prisons were unsafe and often ineffective. The event led him to design modifications to the device that were adopted by many American states.

  5. Here’s Exactly What Happened To Ted Bundy In The Electric Chair

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    The famed electric chair would be the last thing Bundy touched during his life, but it wouldn't be the last the world would hear from him. On the 30th anniversary of Ted Bundy's death, ...

  6. Gruesome Gertie - Wikipedia

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    "Gruesome Gertie" is also infamous for having the first known incident of a failed execution by electrocution in the United States. During the execution of Willie Francis on May 3, 1946, the electric chair had been improperly set up by a drunken prison guard, causing Francis to scream "Take it off!

  7. Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber - Wikipedia

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    Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947), is a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court was asked whether imposing capital punishment (the electric chair) a second time, after it failed in an attempt to execute Willie Francis in 1946, [1] constituted a violation of the United States Constitution.

  8. 'I'm going to put you in an electric chair': Video of a ... - AOL

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    The video, which is about a minute long and packed with racial slurs and profanity-laced outbursts, was air-dropped to several students and staff at Severna Park High School in Severna Park, Md ...

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