electric chair
noun
1
: a chair used in legal electrocution
2
: the penalty of death by electrocution
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South Carolina allows condemned inmates to choose whether to die by lethal injection, electric chair or firing squad.
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CBS News, 8 May 2025
One person, however, showed his distaste toward Mangione by bringing an electric chair with a skeleton, depicted as Mangione, sitting on it.
—Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Under execution protocols, Mahdi sat restrained in a metal chair, a hood over his head, in the corner of a room shared by the state's electric chair, witnesses to the execution reported.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2025
These constructs, over time, led to South Carolina executing 14 years-young George Stinney in 1944, the youngest person in U.S. history killed in an electric chair (his conviction was vacated 70 years later).
—Monique L. Dixon, Baltimore Sun, 29 Jan. 2025
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CBS News, 8 May 2025
One person, however, showed his distaste toward Mangione by bringing an electric chair with a skeleton, depicted as Mangione, sitting on it.
—Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Under execution protocols, Mahdi sat restrained in a metal chair, a hood over his head, in the corner of a room shared by the state's electric chair, witnesses to the execution reported.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2025
These constructs, over time, led to South Carolina executing 14 years-young George Stinney in 1944, the youngest person in U.S. history killed in an electric chair (his conviction was vacated 70 years later).
—Monique L. Dixon, Baltimore Sun, 29 Jan. 2025
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“Electric chair.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electric%20chair. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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