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  2. Old Smokey - Wikipedia

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    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).

  3. Gruesome Gertie - Wikipedia

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    These scenes with the chair were filmed in the actual execution chamber at Louisiana State Penitentiary, where "Gruesome Gertie" had been used for real executions a decade earlier. "Gruesome Gertie" is the instrument of death in Ernest J. Gaines's novel A Lesson Before Dying. It's used to execute the young black man Jefferson, for a murder he ...

  4. Old Sparky - Wikipedia

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    Old Sparky is the nickname of the electric chairs in Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. Old Smokey is the nickname of the electric chairs used in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. [1] "Old Sparky" is sometimes used to refer ...

  5. Category:Electric chairs - Wikipedia

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    Electric chair; G. Gruesome Gertie; O. Old Smokey; Old Sparky; S. State electrician; Y. Yellow Mama This page was last edited on 31 December 2023, at 06:34 (UTC ...

  6. Willie Francis - Wikipedia

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    Willie Francis (January 12, 1929 – May 9, 1947) was an American teenager known for surviving a failed execution by electrocution in the United States. [2] He was a convicted juvenile sentenced to death at age 16 by the state of Louisiana in 1945 for the murder of Andrew Thomas, a pharmacy owner in St. Martinville who had once employed him.

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

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    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 ...

  8. 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.

  9. Robert G. Elliott - Wikipedia

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    Robert Greene Elliott (January 27, 1874 – October 10, 1939) [1] was the New York State Electrician (i.e., executioner) – and for those neighboring states that used the electric chair, including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Massachusetts – during the period 1926–1939.

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