Inventing the electric chair Film: After a series of botched hangings, Edison is solicited by Brown to develop the electric chair.
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With the exception of the beautiful Andy Warhol "Electric Chair" silkscreen from 1971 (from his efficacious Electric Chair series) there are almost no vague forms that compete with the ground.
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Bundy was eventually executed in the electric chair on Jan.
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In 2018, Tennessee used the electric chair for two executions.
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CT. He had chosen the electric chair over lethal injection.
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South Carolina is one of only nine states that allow for execution by electric chair, but this bill would make it the only state to require the electric chair as the primary execution method.
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Southwick is credited with inventing the electric chair, whereas Brown, an activist against AC, was the real co-conspirator to Edison for both the experiments and ensuring Westinghouse generators were linked to the electric chair.
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Brown and Edison surreptitiously provide Westinghouse generators for the electric chair.
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Clayton was executed by electric chair, and Rolo got his soul.
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In Alabama, Florida and Virginia, inmates can choose the electric chair.
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An electric chair that fits in the palm of your hand.
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Nonetheless, after three years Wingo was killed in the electric chair.
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Dozens of convicts were executed by electric chair from 1950 to 1986.
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The state's last execution took place in 1997, using the electric chair.
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Witt was executed by electric chair in Florida on March 6, 1985.
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The lady should be getting the electric chair, being charged with treason.
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On July 6, 1987, Mr. Whitley was executed in the electric chair.
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His death is scheduled for November 30 by lethal injection or electric chair.
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First it was hangings, and then, in 1923, it was the electric chair.
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After all, he faced the possibility of being sent to the electric chair.
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Editorial One kept a paperweight model of an electric chair on his desk.
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The electric chair is an available alternative to lethal injection in nine states.
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Last December, an inmate in Tennessee died by electric chair at his request.
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He has requested the state use an electric chair rather than lethal injection.
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Virginia's governor is considering a bill that would bring back the electric chair.
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He's strapped down in an electric chair or lethal injection, and he's killed.
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Since 2018, four inmates have been put to death by the electric chair.
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Nine states have death by electric chair as an alternative to lethal injection.
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Before Holton's execution, Tennessee had not used the electric chair in 47 years.
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The dome lights were made to look the ominous helmet over an electric chair.
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Other states like Mississippi have considered bringing back gas chambers and the electric chair.
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"Death in the electric chair was comparatively superior, in Mr. Zagorski's estimation," Sotomayor wrote.
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His admission, and a plea deal to those killings, spared him the electric chair.
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But it has not previously been accused of threatening detainees with the electric chair.
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An hour later, it was decided that Ronald would be executed by electric chair.
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He compares running the government headquarters in Barcelona to sitting in an electric chair.
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Witnesses to West's death in the electric chair said he sobbed before he died.
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Alabama carries out executions by lethal injections unless an inmate requests the electric chair.
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If that ever happened to a Republican, they'd be getting the electric chair right now.
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File photo of an electric chair used by the Virginia Department of Corrections in 2006.
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But now, in cases where the drugs are unavailable, they will face the electric chair.
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Others have switched to alternate methods like the electric chair, firing squad, and nitrogen gas.
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They dangled cooperation as a way of serving shorter sentences and avoiding the electric chair.
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From 1950 to when capital punishment was abolished in 1987, the electric chair was used.
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He was the fifth person to die by electric chair in Tennessee since November 19993.
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During that one decade, more than 100 convicted felons were executed in the electric chair.
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Lee Hall, 54, was executed by electric chair and declared dead at 7:26 p.m.
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"Yeah, it feels like you're walking to the electric chair" is how she put it.
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At five-foot-one and 203 pounds, he was too small for the electric chair.
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The firing squad, the electric chair, and, most recently, lethal injection all have passed constitutional muster.
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"Big Electric Chair" (1967–68) is the only example of this second batch in the show.
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Sitting in an empty room is an unoccupied, high-backed electric chair, visually humming with menace.
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If a Republican did that, they'd be calling for people to bring out the electric chair.
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They hooked him up in an electric chair, and pulled the lever up to ten seconds.
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Warhol is here, with six "Electric Chair" prints from 1971, still hallucinatory after all these years.
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Tennessee is allowing prison officials to use the electric chair if lethal injection drugs are unavailable.
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Kloepfer moved on with her life, and Bundy was executed via electric chair on January 24, 1989.
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Solomon, who was also convicted and sentenced to death, was executed by electric chair in February 1985.
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The last inmate to be executed by electric chair was David Miller, 61, in Tennessee in December.
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He suggested he would have been sent to the "electric chair" had he done the same thing.
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He also had a hand in the electric chair, the tattoo gun, General Electric — and the movies.
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The exhibition at Venus is presented as an homage to the inaugural presentation of the terse "Electric Chair" paintings-as-monoprints — even though this unsigned "Big Electric Chair" was not part of it — that took place at the Jerrold Morris International Gallery in Toronto in March of 1965.
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Guston and Kadish's fresco, depicting a swastika, hammer and sickle, cross, whips, nails, and electric chair cap, would
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South Carolina's Senate passed a bill to require inmates to be executed by the electric chair on Wednesday.
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South Carolina has allowed death row inmates to choose between the electric chair or lethal injection since 1995.
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Nebraska hasn&apost executed an inmate since 1997, when the state&aposs execution method was the electric chair.
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This is the first execution to happen in Nebraska since 1997, when the state used the electric chair.
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" He adds: "In America if you steal state secrets they put you in the electric chair, don't they?
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He was sentenced to death and died in the electric chair in the state of Florida in 1989.
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He had helped send the Rosenbergs to the electric chair for spying and elect Richard M. Nixon president.
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Neelley was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to die in Alabama&aposs electric chair, but Alabama Gov.
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In 2014, Tennessee authorized prison officials to use the electric chair if lethal injection drugs were unavailable. Gov.
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If he asks for bread or beefsteak, put him in the electric chair and turn on the current.
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Nationally, the electric chair is a method of the past; no other state has used it since 2013.
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Right now, South Carolina death row inmates can pick how they die: by lethal injection or the electric chair.
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He attempted to escape the electric chair for years, managing to get his execution date pushed back multiple times.
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In 2014, Tennessee passed a law allowing the use of the electric chair if lethal drugs can't be found.
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From there I was able to teleport him down to the lab and strap him into the electric chair.
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In 2014, Tennessee said that when lethal injection drugs can't be found, the state can use the electric chair.
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Stephen Michael West, 56, was put to death by electric chair and was pronounced dead at 7:183 p.m.
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Nebraska's last execution took place in December 1997, when Robert Williams was put to death using the electric chair.
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Since 1995, inmates in Virginia have been given the choice between dying by lethal injection or by electric chair.
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Since 2267, inmates in Virginia have been given the choice between dying by lethal injection or by electric chair.
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He should be put in the electric chair and you'd even call for the reconstitution of the death penalty, okay?
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Of the 22016 states that still have the death penalty, 22006 do not have the electric chair as an option.
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William Kemmler, a man sentenced to death for murder, is soon the first person to be executed via electric chair.
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Collusion between Southwick and Edison Film: Brown colludes with Edison on the experiments and pinning the electric chair on Westinghouse.
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A man convicted of a double murder in Tennessee was executed by electric chair — at his request — on Thursday night.
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Last week, Tennessee put an inmate to death by electric chair, the fourth execution in the United States this year.
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The electric chair is an available alternative to lethal injection in nine states, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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Surovell said these individuals have suggested Gray could avoid being executed if McAuliffe doesn't approve the new electric chair law.
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An execution date was set in 2007, but was called off after the Nebraska Supreme Court declared the electric chair unconstitutional.
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Tennessee, for example, reinstated the possibility of the electric chair, Utah allowed the firing squad again, and Oklahoma permitted nitrogen gas.
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"They electrocuted people in Alabama in an electric chair called the Yellow Mama, because it was painted bright yellow," Hargrove said.
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Bruno Hauptmann was eventually arrested in connection with the kidnap-murder, and he was executed via the electric chair in 1936.
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This year is the 30th anniversary of Bundy's execution in an electric chair, and the buzz is rising to a screech.
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An all-white jury quickly convicted him and sentenced him to "ride the lightning" in "Big Yellow Mama," Alabama's electric chair.
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Joseph McCarthy go after suspected Communists and led the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, which ended in the electric chair.
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In 2014, Tennessee became the first state to make use of the electric chair mandatory when lethal injection drugs are unavailable.
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Executions in Texas, now by lethal injection — Old Sparky, the Texas electric chair, had been retired — started back up in 264.
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Hall chose execution by electric chair over lethal injection, marking the fourth condemned U.S. inmate to die that way since 2018.
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The electric chair bill was drafted to circumvent the nationwide shortage of lethal injection drugs, which are manufactured in European labs.
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Cooper's ex-girlfriend, Cindy Lang, gave Warhol $2,500 for the work — a red silkscreen of "Little Electric Chair" (20173) — in 1972.
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The first modern case of a botched execution attempt happened in Louisiana in 1946 when a malfunctioning electric chair failed to take the life of Willie Francis, 17, a convicted murderer, according to The A.P. The United States Supreme Court allowed the state to make a second attempt, and Mr. Francis was executed by electric chair in 1947.
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In 1986, three years before Bundy was executed on the electric chair, Boone divorced Bundy and left Florida with Rose and James.
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If Edmund Zagorski is to be executed, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, the state will have to use the electric chair.
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In Tennessee, prisoners who were convicted before the state adopted lethal injection in 1999 can choose to be executed by electric chair.
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In response, frustrated lawmakers in South Carolina held hearings today about bringing back the electric chair for when lethal injection isn't available.
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Arkansas, Oklahoma and Mississippi law gives the state the authority to bring back the electric chair, should other methods be ruled unconstitutional.
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A few states have adopted the electric chair, firing squad or gas chamber as an alternative if lethal drugs are not available.
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This low key, all-star punk outfit includes members of Throw Rag, The Humpers, Disguster, The Hitchhikers and Doom Kounty Electric Chair.
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Tennessee is one of just six states in the country where an inmate can choose between the electric chair or lethal injection.
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Alabama carries out executions by lethal injections unless an inmate requests the electric chair, an option Hamm declined, according to court records.
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EST on January 24, 1989, Ted Bundy died at age 42, via the electric chair at the Florida State Prison in Raiford, Florida.
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He was tried for his crimes and executed via electric chair in January 1989, more than 20 years after his first known attack.
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By the late 1990s, however, a number of malfunctions raised questions about whether or not the electric chair constituted cruel and unusual punishment.
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Last year, two death row inmates in Tennessee chose to be executed by electric chair, citing concerns about the state's lethal injection protocol.
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Last month, Virginia's state legislature approved a bill to use the electric chair in response to a nationwide shortage of lethal injection drugs.
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Effigies of Clinton in an electric chair or posters with her on a bullseye have become part of Trump followers' grassroots political theater.
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Moore was the first inmate to be lethally injected in Nebraska, which carried out its last execution in 1997 using the electric chair.
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Aside from making the electric chair mandatory, others in South Carolina would like to see the flow of lethal injection drugs come back.
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Edmund Zagorski, 22017, requested death by electric chair amid concerns over the lethal injection process, as it's been botched in several recent executions.
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Edmund Zagorski, 63, requested death by electric chair amid concerns over the lethal injection process, as it's been botched in several recent executions.
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There, he pled guilty—something he agreed to do to avoid execution by electric chair—and was sentenced to 21998 years in prison.
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On March 28th its legislature passed a law allowing executions to proceed using the electric chair in the event of a drug shortage.
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Bundy was executed in the electric chair back in '89 after admitting to murdering more than 30 women, 12 of whom he decapitated.
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He implicated the other Klansman, Henry Hays, who was found guilty of murder in state court and died in the Alabama electric chair.
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Since then, only three more people have been killed by electric chair, all in Virginia, according data compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center.
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READ: Some of the most important details of Arkansas' execution spree will remain unknown South Carolina has a controversial history with the electric chair.
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Nine states permit the use of the electric chair, but just two — Virginia and South Carolina — have used one in the past 25 years.
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Within hours of Monday's ruling, Zagorski asked to be killed by the electric chair, to avoid a lethal injection he says would be torture.
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Since 1995, death row inmates in South Carolina have had the choice to be executed either by the electric chair or by lethal injections.
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He was the first person to be executed by electric chair in the United States since 2013, and the first in Tennessee since 2007.
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So, Hanks has to do his his job and oversee Coffey to the electric chair even though he knows the gentle giant isn't guilty.
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The last time someone in the US was executed by electric chair was in 2013, when the inmate himself opted for it in Virginia.
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While Hinton knew he was innocent and believed he'd be acquitted, those hopes were almost dashed when he was sentenced to the electric chair.
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First response: Some have argued that hanging was quicker and more compassionate than, say, the protracted drama and preparations for death by electric chair.
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" Trump joked that if it were discovered that he received questions in advance "they would call for the re-establishment of the electric chair.
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Two years ago, Tennessee passed legislation that would allow the electric chair to be used if the state runs out of lethal injection drugs.
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The state has struggled to procure the drugs needed to carry out lethal injections, so legislators see the electric chair as a more reliable option.
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It is relevant that Warhol began producing his "Electric Chair" paintings in 1963, the same year that capital punishment was banned in New York State.
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On Thursday, a federal judge ruled in Zagorski's favor and prohibited the state from executing the inmate by any method other than the electric chair.
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Now, states are looking at alternatives In 2014, Tennessee said that when lethal injection drugs can't be found, the state can use the electric chair.
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He avoided the electric chair with a plea-bargain confession and said he carried out his killings using cyanide, arsenic, rat poison or petroleum distillate.
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Tennessee is set to execute a death row inmate by electric chair Thursday evening – the second time the state has used that method since 30.
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Tennessee is set to execute a death row inmate by electric chair Thursday evening – the second time the state has used that method since 1960.
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Virginia is one of at least eight states that allow electrocutions, but it currently gives inmates the choice of lethal injection or the electric chair.
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The 5-foot-1, 95-pound Stinney was so small in the electric chair that they had to use a book as a booster seat.
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Tennessee reinstated use of the electric chair in 2014, to be used if chosen by the inmate or if lethal injection drugs were not available.
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Death by electric chair, known colloquially as "Old Sparky," was first developed in 1880s by a New York dentist as a humane alternative to hanging.
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Lethal injection has emerged as the latest method of execution without obvious cruelty, replacing the electric chair, the gas chamber, the firing squad and the noose.
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There are six small single paintings on view, all of which share the same name ("Little Electric Chair") date (1964) and size (22 x 28 inches).
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The decision, if it holds, would result in the first electric chair death in Tennessee since 2007, and the first in the US since 2013. Gov.
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Serial killer Ted Bundy, who died in Florida's electric chair in 242, concealed his terrifying trail of terror for years while moving constantly about the country.
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In recent weeks, the man who made the electric chair that Zagorski is set to be executed in told ABC News he's concerned it will malfunction.
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In recently filed court documents, Kelley Henry, a lawyer representing Zagorski, says that forcing him to choose between lethal injection and the electric chair is unconstitutional.
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By this point, the US Supreme Court had ruled the electric chair a cruel and unusual punishment, so his life was ended with a lethal injection.
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"If I got a subpoena for emails, if I deleted one email, like a love note to Melania, it's the electric chair for Trump," he said.
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"As far as I'm concerned, it is treason and the penalty for treason is the firing squad — or maybe it's the electric chair now," he said.
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Its whining dual guitar intro settles into a mid-tempo chug, with Hetfield taking on the role of a condemned man awaiting his electric chair fate.
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Its violent subject matter anticipated his painting "Electric Chair" (903-60), which depicts a barefoot man strapped into the seat, watched intently by a seated audience.
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Consider the Rosenbergs frying in the electric chair in that sultry summer of 1953, when Bernie Sanders was just one year shy of his bar mitzvah.
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"If I ever used those words it would be the reinstitution of the electric chair," Mr. Trump said, referring to the profanity used by the performers.
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On June 19933, 21993, after exhausting two years of legal appeals, the Rosenbergs were executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison in New York.
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The state executed the youngest person of the 20th century, a 14-year-old African American boy named George Stinney Jr., in an electric chair in 1944.
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Mr Landry responded by saying that if the drugs were not available, why not use the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, or the firing squad?
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And they're also here to ensure that the consequences will be nine pounds of raw screaming need, delivered at gunpoint in the shadow of the electric chair.
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Once, when researching the history of botched executions, I stumbled across a photograph in court records taken after one of Florida's last uses of the electric chair.
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Location: Moundsville, West Virginia Why it shut down: West Virginia Penitentiary, erected in 19073, is partly known for its electric chair, which was built by an inmate.
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Breakout Technique of the Year – Imanari roll 2014: Electric Chair Sweep2015: Snap Kicks This is always a tricky category because there is nothing new under the sun.
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Mr. Smith once seemed destined for the electric chair for that killing, which New Jersey detectives described as one of the most horrible they had ever seen.
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But the presence of an electric chair onstage (which is described as being set up in town squares for local entertainment) and a hangman's rope tell otherwise.
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Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has until midnight on Sunday to decide whether to make death by electric chair the compulsory method of capital punishment in his state.
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This method was seen as being a kinder than using the electric chair or a firing squad says Maya Foa, the director of Reprieve, a human-rights charity.
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They were afraid that if they went to trial they would face the electric chair, a prospect that the sheriff and his deputies had told them was likely.
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The book grows out of the historical record of the South at a time when the newly arrived electric chair was beginning to make the lynch mob obsolete.
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"If a Republican ever did what Joe Biden did, if a Republican ever said what Joe Biden said, they'd be getting the electric chair right now," Trump said.
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The following day, 42-year-old Bundy was executed in the electric chair, the sounds of the crowd's chanting "Burn, Bundy, Burn" from the crowd audible within the prison.
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Tennessee allows the use of the electric chair while Utah has passed a law allowing death by firing squad if the state is unable to obtain the proper drugs.
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Batman may not pull the switch on the electric chair but is happy enough throwing prisoners into places like Arkham Asylum, an isolated, crumbling penitentiary of dubious rehabilitory capability.
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Some priests and nuns at the Catholic schools were involved in the most depraved abuses, including at an Ontario school where students were shocked on a homemade electric chair.
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Edmund Zagorski's last words were "Let's rock" before he died in Tennessee's electric chair, a method he chose because he felt it would mean less agony than lethal injection.
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The push for change comes because lethal injection, introduced 40 years ago as more efficient and humane than the electric chair or gas chamber, has not met that promise.
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In 1952 he was a clerk to Judge Irving R. Kaufman, who gained national attention a year earlier when he sentenced Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to the electric chair.
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"He added: "If a Republican ever did what Joe Biden did, if a Republican ever said what Joe Biden said, they'd be getting the electric chair by right now.
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The only way to save Thaw from the electric chair was for Nesbit to testify about her assault, in order to prove that White's actions had driven Thaw temporarily insane.
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The exhibition is a bit disjointed, presenting contemporary art like Andy Warhol's overplayed "Electric Chair" and Larry Clark's portrait of two swaggering Oklahoma robbers alongside graphic photographs from crime scenes.
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He juxtaposes the uplifting World's Fair storyline with a fascinating tangent about the creation of the electric chair, which played its own dark, dramatic role in the Edison / Westinghouse rivalry.
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Trump Jr. told NBC News's Katy Tur that he was referring to executions in general, not the Holocaust, and often uses the phrase "electric chair" to make the same point.
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It's about ex-KKK scumbag David Duke, a Trump supporter, who just called for Hillary to get the electric chair, and Trump's reluctance to immediately disavow him earlier this year.
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In addition to using the waiter sweep to set up leg attacks, he has been one of the highest profile grapplers to have continued success with the electric chair sweep.
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On January 24, the 30th Anniversary of Ted Bundy's execution by electric chair at Florida State Prison, Netflix will premier Joe Berlinger's Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes.
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PA confronts the player with the reality of the prison system, while still urging [them] to become a part of the game, to build the electric chair for the execution.
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" Even back then, he always visualized the sort of cinematic life he has now, with several Warhols on the wall, including a triptych of vulvas and a "Big Electric Chair.
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The outlandish script has something to do with an angry biker gang, fratty spring breakers and a leather-clad killer who rides a motorcycle that doubles as an electric chair.
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Former White House adviser Sebastian Gorka said on Thursday that if the Uranium One deal took place in the 85033s, those involved would have been subject to the electric chair.
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JW: Did you know he died — Warhol died the day after Geralyn [Donohue] and I were doing a show called "The Electric Chair Series" at Tony Shafrazi Gallery [in 1987].
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Bill Lee (R) said he would not stay the sentencing of Lee Hall, a blind death row inmate who's scheduled to be put to death in the electric chair Thursday.
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Ted Bundy, who was at the time on Death Row awaiting death by electric chair, was among those who were interviewed by the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit back in the 1980s.
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Governor Terry McAuliffe waited until the last minute on Sunday night to nix a plan by Virginia lawmakers to bring back the electric chair as the state's go-to execution method.
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The last Virginia inmate to choose the electric chair was just three years ago: 42-year-old Robert Gleason Jr. was executed in 2013 after strangling two of his fellow prisoners.
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As South Carolina's Post and Courier newspaper reports, the state allows inmates on death row to choose between two options when they're sentenced to die: lethal injection or the electric chair.
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Since their lives mattered, would Loyd serving a life sentence truly recognize that fact, or would lethal injection or the electric chair be the only methods to square their lost lives?
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His crime Miller, 61, waived his right to be executed by lethal injection last month, according to CNN affiliate WTVF, instead electing to be put to death in the electric chair.
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His attorneys argued in court filings that death by both lethal injection and the electric chair would cause him to suffer and constitute cruel and unusual punishment, violating his constitutional rights.
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National Briefing | South The State Senate on Monday approved a bill that would allow the state to execute condemned inmates in the electric chair when it cannot find lethal-injection drugs.
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With executions, the science was often inexact and the application difficult, and when it went wrong the electric chair or the gas chamber could easily become a distinctive kind of torture.
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"If a Republican ever did what Joe Biden did, if a Republican ever said what Joe Biden said, they'd be getting the electric chair by right now," Trump said on Monday.
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At that moment within the prison, a masked executioner flipped the switch on the electric chair, sending 242,000 volts of electricity into the body of Ted Bundy, America's most notorious serial killer.
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Arkansas has an unhappy history of multiple executions: in 1923 a man was taken from his coffin and put back in the electric chair after he was found still to be breathing.
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The two popular alternatives to the noose—the electric chair and the gas chamber—were advertised to be foolproof and much more reliable than hanging, but also had their share of problems.
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Even the front cover—which depicted an electric chair suspended in what looked like a night sky, beneath that now familiar logo—was a more mature statement of the band's rapid growth.
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A little backstory ... when Death Row went bankrupt everything in the office was sold -- from Suge Knight's engraved cigar cases to the famous electric chair ... it all went to the highest bidders.
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Donald Trump said Monday that he would get the electric chair if he had received debate questions in advance the way Hillary Clinton did from interim Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile.
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The mood is somber, appropriate to 228% big money ventures and for contemplating 21965 versions of Andy Warhol's sinister "Little Electric Chair" (9803) canvases — one of which recently sold for about $2980 million.
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Sally had told him about an electric chair — or something that looked just like one — that a nun used to strap her into for hours, taunting her that the chair would fry her.
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According to this manual, the chair itself was made of oak — Leuchter claimed it included wood from Tennessee's first electric chair — and had an adjustable backrest, as well as a removable drip pan.
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Earlier this month, the Virginia approved a bill that will permit the state to carry out executions using the electric chair when it is unable to get the drugs needed for lethal injection.
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Death row inmates there have a choice of the electric chair or lethal injection -- the vast majority (46 out of 48) have selected the latter after the drug option was introduced in 1995.
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Mr Hutchinson's haste avowedly stemmed from the trouble that his state, like others, has faced in carrying out legal injections, which had seemed a reassuringly hygienic method, just as the electric chair once did.
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The Virginia State Senate approved a bill on Monday that will permit the state to carry out executions using the electric chair when it is unable to get the drugs needed for lethal injection.
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He was sentenced to the electric chair on August 10, 1966, according to News OK.Before he was executed, he yelled a famously morbid suggestion for a headline to gathered reporters, according to the Mirror.
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Neelley originally had been sentenced to the electric chair for the slaying of 13-year-old Lisa Ann Millican, but had her death sentence commuted, setting off a battle over her possible parole eligibility.
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Related: Iran Executed More Than 500 People Last Year for Drug-Related Crimes McAuliffe's decision carries particular weight given Virginia's history of racism when it comes to meting out justice with the electric chair.
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Cover image: In this April 5, 2017 photo, an exhibit at the Texas Prison Museum shows the old Texas electric chair used to execute hundred of Texas inmates in Huntsville, Texas, from 1924 through 1964.
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The only canvas that failed to work for me was the garish large one, "Big Electric Chair," which, by doubling the application of the chair imagery in two shades of green, makes the chair ephemeral.
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McAuliffe's decision to gut the electric chair bill was apparently made just hours after he and his wife Dorothy hosted a fundraising event for Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton at the couple's home in McLean, Virginia.
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Two Tunisian men held captive by the CIA more than a decade ago claim that they were threatened with an electric chair, a previously undisclosed method used during the spy agency's period of brutal interrogations.
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In 1990, he did a painting titled "Legal Abortion," and in 1993, he did one of Jeffrey Dahmer strapped into an electric chair, celebrating his birthday with a cake made from a butchered male pelvis.
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It's been exactly 30 years since Ted Bundy was executed in the electric chair at Florida Sate Prison, the cheers of a crowd of 2,000 people eagerly anticipating his death wafting into the prison from outside.
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Robert and Michael Meeropol have been advocating on behalf of their parents for over 63 years since they were convicted of providing secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union and executed by electric chair.
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In another music video, "Hi Bich/Whachu Know," Bhabie takes the persecution complex further, playing a defendant in a courtroom who is later strapped to an electric chair and put to death by a black bailiff.
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Lawyers representing Zagorski, who confessed to a double murder in 1983, are making last-minute appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court to delay his execution in light of concerns surrounding the constitutionality of the electric chair.
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Lawyers representing Zagorski, who confessed to a double murder in 1, are making last-minute appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court to delay his execution in light of concerns surrounding the constitutionality of the electric chair.
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But President Donald Trump on Monday suggested that a Republican would get the "electric chair" if they "ever did what Joe Biden did" as he spoke about the former vice president's activities in relation to Kiev.
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Mr. Moseley was condemned to die in the electric chair, but in 1967, two years after New York State abolished most capital punishments, he won an appeal that reduced his sentence to an indeterminate life term.
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Several time, the film illustrates how the threat of the electric chair is used to coerce and intimidate people who have not even been convicted (McMillian was put on death row a year before his trial).
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From the time he was first arrested, to when he was strapped to the electric chair, to present day when he is being romanticized into some machiavellian Romeo, Ted Bundy was given the benefit of the doubt.
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The non-partisan, 24-strong field included David Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan; in a televised debate he bickered with the moderator and said Mrs Clinton "should be getting the electric chair".
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Lawmakers in South Carolina met today with the hopes of putting forward legislation that would strip inmates of the choice, and allow the state to simply execute people by electric chair when the drugs needed aren't available.
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The two men, now in their early 50s, separately told Human Rights Watch that U.S. interrogators had showed them a makeshift metal chair with plugs, wires and a cap that they were told was an electric chair.
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Two paintings are isolated on separate walls: a full-size electric-chair painting in gold slurred across blue, green and pink, and the gem that is "Twelve Electric Chairs," a grid of small canvases in different colors.
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Questions about the humanity of Tennessee's lethal-injection protocol were so pervasive following the execution of Mr. Irick that both Mr. Zagorski and Mr. Miller elected to die in Tennessee's electric chair, which was built in 1916.
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Presumably this is the same thinking behind the position taken by 51 death-row prisoners in Alabama who want to die in an untested nitrogen gas chamber rather than by either the electric chair or lethal injection.
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Nebraska, which was still using an electric chair the last time it executed someone in 222, has said Mr. Moore will be the state's first execution by lethal injection, using a combination of four drugs, including fentanyl.
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Roy never changes his spots, remaining hateful even on his deathbed: "Better dead than red!" he screams at the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg, the accused Russian spy he had helped send to the electric chair 30 years earlier.
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Sweeping Gracie with an electric chair sweep from the lockdown (the entangled grapevining way that Gracie's leg is tied up), Bravo allowed Gracie's leg to pass over his head and came up into a peculiar, tangled top position.
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Even Jake Tapper from CNN said, listen, Donald Trump Jr. put out the same thing, he played the clip yesterday on his twitter account -- I said the same thing two weeks ago, and used the term electric chair.
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"The state of Tennessee has coerced Mr. Zagorski – with the threat of extreme chemical torture via a barbaric three-drug lethal injection protocol – to choose to die a painful and gruesome death in the electric chair," Henry writes.
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Despite the gloating, high-fiving and wishful thinking of the mainstream news media and Democrats like Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, ObamaCare has not been saved permanently from the congressional electric chair and the Trump presidency is not over.
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A number of journalists were allowed to witness it, so we know the sound the electric chair made (one compared it to a "fourth of July sparkler") and the fact that her thumbs turned upward as she died.
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The macabre, poignant, candy-colored, and provocative "Electric Chair" works make up one of Warhol's most significant series, executed as part of his grisly Death and Disaster production, as conceived by Henry Geldzahler along the lines of film noir.
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In test screenings, Mr. Byrnes engendered such a frenzy among the women in the audience that the film soon became a series and his character — resuscitated, one assumes, after a spin in the electric chair — was reborn as Kookie.
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Related: Executions Across the World Hit a 25-Year High in 2015 Last month, Virginia's governor Terry McAuliffe vetoed a bill at the final hour which would have brought back the electric chair as the default method of execution.
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The resulting death-drug shortage is leading some states to revive older execution methods; in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia, legislators have proposed the re-introduction of the electric chair, and in Utah, the state government has brought back the firing squad.
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We heralded the arrival of the electric chair sweep and hoped for its widespread use in MMA when Eddie Bravo and Garry Tonon stormed through Metamoris using them in 2014, but sadly it is still absent in high level MMA.
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Warhol took the suggestion and snatched the electric chair image from a news wire service dated January 23, 225, that was announcing the historic death sentences of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in upstate New York.
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In Tennessee, inmates have neither option (those with crimes committed before 1999 can still choose the electric chair, though), and some have legally challenged the constitutionality of lethal injection over what appears to be a rising concern over botched executions.
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He marries an Oklahoma blonde (Blake Lively), has a child, and takes over ownership of the club after Ben, an unrepentantly violent gangster, is put in the electric chair at Sing Sing for pouring concrete over one too many undesirable men.
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Whether the subject is an old man with knobby knees in an adult diaper, or a knife-wielding woman, or a goofy-looking killer strapped into an electric chair, it is us we are seeing, and none of us are pretty.
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Bright, one of the nation's pre-eminent capital defense attorneys and a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School, went to Clearwater in 1985 to challenge the conviction and death sentence of a man who was bound for the electric chair. Gov.
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She reflected on the evolution of death penalty methods over time, saying that states turned to lethal injection because it was perceived as the most painless way to kill someone, more humane than the electric chair, gas chamber, or firing squad.
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Unless McAuliffe, a Democrat, decides to veto legislation passed by state lawmakers last month, a new law will take effect on July 1 that requires the state to use the electric chair to execute inmates who have been sentenced to death.
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Unless McAuliffe, a Democrat, decides to veto legislation passed by state lawmakers last month, a new law will take effect on July 2217 that requires the state to use the electric chair to execute inmates who have been sentenced to death.
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"They did not introduce their (electric chair) bill last year, so it's either that they are trying to use the gruesomeness of the Ricky Gray case to justify this, or else it is one heck of a coincidence," Surovell said.
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The electric chair fell out of favor in the 1970s in the United States after it was deemed more barbaric than other forms of death, though there's significant debate in the medical community about how much pain people experience during lethal injection.
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"Because I knew the victim and her husband's family and knew them all to be good black folks, I felt Tharpe, who wasn't in the 'good black folks' category in my book, should get the electric chair for what he did," Gattie added.
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Moore was sentenced to death for the 1979 killings of Omaha taxi drivers Maynard Helgeland and Reuel Van Ness Jr. The last time Nebraska executed an inmate was in December 1997, when Robert Williams was put to death using the electric chair.
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Or I'd become caught up in an operation conducted by the CIA, because folks I'd known and trusted were actually spies and I had been recruited as an agent to expose their treason and send them to prison, to the electric chair.
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Mr. Cohn, who as a young aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy made his name by ensuring that the couple was sent to the electric chair, would later go on to coach Mr. Trump in the art of full-on assault of his enemies.
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Gray was convicted of murdering five people, and Virginia Senator Scott Surovell believes that proponents of the electric chair have used his case to argue that the state needs an alternative way to execute inmates if lethal injection is no longer feasible.
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At his own trial, Mr. Moseley pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the killing of Ms. Genovese, but was found legally sane, convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death at a time when New York State still employed the electric chair.
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Near the turn of the century, Edison secretly funded the development of the world's first electric chair after Westinghouse refused to offer his generators to the enterprise; although Edison himself was against the death penalty, he wanted to prove his enemy's electricity was deadly.
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A recent story making the rounds revolved around a student who bought an electric chair for his friend, but it glossed over the fact that his friend's insurance company should have provided him with an appropriate and well-fitted chair to meet his needs.
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But because several people were charged in connection to each murder, the key question at Cooper's, Gardner's and Walton's trials was one of culpability: How much of a role did the accused play, and were his actions egregious enough to warrant the electric chair?
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This forced a young Cohn to make his own way, via law school and then early notoriety as the prosecutor who put Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the electric chair and as the right-hand man to Joe McCarthy, a fellow bachelor and red-baiter.
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Don't forget to subscribe for more exclusive interviews and photos, only in EW. Though Cooper knows when a bit takes too long — an electric chair segment was once abandoned because he sensed that the audience was getting bored — he's never scrapped a stunt because of the danger.
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All echelons of the industry were present, like low-level tech blogger C.J. Cantwell of Code/Rag — she was notably seen chugging from a bottle of Tres Comas while draped over a rustic electric chair done up to look like the throne of Liliuokalani, the last queen of Hawaii.
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Warhol created roughly 40 versions of "Electric Chair," mostly executed in black silkscreen ink applied over "pretty" colored bases — from silver to the bright colors seen in "Twelve Electric Chairs" (1964), with its various flavors of green, orange, red, purple, shades of yellow, and, most perversely, bubblegum pink.
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During interrogations about his work — police seemed to believe he had access to sensitive information — security agents put him in an electric chair, turned it on for 20 seconds at a time, and threw cold water on his face to revive him when he passed out from the pain.
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When I asked Timmons if he believes that the electric chair is cruel and unusual punishment, which is forbidden by the 8th Amendment and the biggest constitutional point of debate around the death penalty, he again says that the broader discussion about the state executing prisoners isn't the point.
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There's something undeniably fascinating about a man who can sing "they ain't you babe, no they ain't you babe, and there ain't nothin else I can do but be with you, babe" and rap "if they knew about my life I'd get the electric chair" on the same album.
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In 1999, the American Civil Liberties Union called for a moratorium on the electric chair after the brutal and bloody execution of Allen Lee "Tiny" Davis who was sentenced to death in Florida for the murder of 53-year-old Nancy Weiler and her two daughters in 1982.
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During his rookie season with the Cincinnati Bengals in 2009, Mr. Rivers bought his first piece — an Andy Warhol Electric Chair print — after a trip to the Museum of Modern Art with a woman he had been interested in when he was studying at the University of Southern California.
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The pervasive opinion against Harris has whipped up public emotion so much that "the public is foregoing issues of guilt or innocence" and instead was talking about bringing back "old sparky" - the electric chair once used in Georgia, defense attorney T. Bryan Lumpkin said in arguing to move the trial.
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So fierce was the drive to rack up wins that prosecutors "sought the death penalty in nearly every first-degree murder case," according to a 1988 survey by a local public defender — a strategy that allowed them to leverage the threat of the electric chair to extract guilty pleas from defendants.
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Over the next few years, Warhol created a gripping series of gruesome paintings that transferred images of suicide victims, the wreckage of smashed cars, atomic bomb explosions, civil rights protesters attacked by dogs, people unwittingly poisoned by contaminated tuna fish, and the electric chair onto canvas using silkscreen reproductive technology to great affect.
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Miller is the second death row inmate this year who chose the electric chair over lethal injection, and his wish appears to play out amid two big factors: Botched executions have gotten national attention, and challenges either to the death penalty itself or to specific forms of execution are on the rise.
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With options for buying death-penalty drugs significantly narrowed, states face a choice between scrounging for surprisingly expensive medications through back channels, reverting to older, less sanitised execution methods like the electric chair or giving up on a punishment that most of America and nearly all of the industrialised world has already abandoned.
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If his doctor, Henry (Susan Brown), announces that diagnosis, the hateful, litigious Cohn—who made sure that Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were killed in the electric chair; served as Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel during his crusade against Communism; and, toward the end of his life, represented Donald Trump—will destroy Henry's career.
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" In speaking with reporters while in New York for the annual United Nations General Assembly, Mr. Trump was in a combative mood on Monday, brimming with hyperbole and invective, at one point even casually saying that if Republicans had done what Mr. Biden had done, "they'd be getting the electric chair right now.
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He railed to Tapper about "lie after lie" from the Clinton camp, said they'd "do anything to win," and — my favorite part — claimed that if a Republican were making the kinds of wild allegations of Russian meddling that they were, there'd be a call "to bring out the electric chair" for that person.
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Rounding out the top Newhouse lots are Vincent van Gogh's "Trees in the Garden of the Asylum" (20063), estimated around $22006 million; Roy Lichtenstein's "Landscape with Boats" (219), $21953 million to $9 million; Andy Warhol's "Little Electric Chair" (1964—65), $6 million to $8 million; and Lucian Freud's "Painter's Garden" (2003), $193 million to $6 million.
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Though the first failed execution in modern U.S. history took place in 63, when Louisiana's attempt to execute Willie Francis using the electric chair failed, the second was much more recent: In 2009, an Ohio execution team made 18 attempts over the course of two hours to find a vein to inject Romell Broom with lethal injection drugs. Then-Gov.
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Though the first failed execution in modern U.S. history took place in 1946, when Louisiana's attempt to execute Willie Francis using the electric chair failed, the second was much more recent: In 2009, an Ohio execution team made 18 attempts over the course of two hours to find a vein to inject Romell Broom with lethal injection drugs. Then-Gov.
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Those who venture beyond her Zazzle site to the store on her personal website will be rewarded with such treasures as a miniature sculpture of an electric chair for $2,000 and a hand-sewn custom Melanin Spectrum Doll™, which comes in five different shades, to reflect the rich, beautiful tapestry of humanity in all of its five different shades.
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At the school, which is hosted by Sideshow by the Seashores on the southernmost tip of Brooklyn, we'd learn to swallow swords, hammer nails into our faces, walk on broken glass, recline on a bed of nails, survive the blade box, get zapped in the electric chair, stick our hands into animal traps, and learn the ins and outs of caring for a Burmese python.
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Set in a museum dedicated to the technology used to commit crimes, the episode follows a doctor who receives an implant that allows him to feel his patients' pain (and becomes addicted to it); a comatose woman whose consciousness is transferred into her husband's brain and then her child's toy; and a cognizant hologram of a murderer that visitors can submit to endless rounds of the electric chair.
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Arts | Westchester There's something magical about Sing Sing, the maximum-security prison that sprawls over 6000 acres on a bank of the Hudson River where it widens north of the Tappan Zee Bridge — if the word magical can be used to describe a place that in the late 6008th century pioneered the use of the electric chair and that today houses about 22002,183 inmates, many of them convicted of rape or murder.
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Yes, it was Tesla's (and George Westinghouse's) AC power scheme that eventually emerged successfully from the nearly decade-long battle with Edison's DC, during which Edison electrocuted all manner of living things, including an elephant and human beings (yes, Thomas Edison was a force behind the electric chair) to demonstrate the danger of AC. But the success of the light bulb spurned three other non-device Edison advances that are still significant today.
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They recall anarchist plots to blow up St. Patrick's Cathedral and remind readers of the best-selling Daily News front page featuring Ruth Snyder, convicted of murder, in the electric chair; they detail the carnage of George Metesky, the "Mad Bomber" who terrorized New York in the 1950s (who, of that era, can forget the grinning photograph of Metesky, a disgruntled former Consolidated Edison employee?); they touch on the cases of Judge Joseph Force Crater, who disappeared in 1930 (and is still missing), and of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed as Soviet spies in 1953.
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