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Pages in category "People executed by Florida by electric chair" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ...
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.
Pages in category "People executed by Massachusetts by electric chair" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "People executed by electric chair" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. G.
Pages in category "People executed by Indiana by electric chair" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Yellow Mama is the electric chair of the United States state of Alabama.It was used for executions from 1927 to 2002. First installed at Kilby State Prison near Montgomery, Alabama, the chair acquired its yellow color (and from it, the nickname "Yellow Mama") when it was painted with highway-line paint from the adjacent State Highway Department lab. [1]
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