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Recent Examples on the Web The prosecution referred to Hains as the mastermind of the crime and proposed sending him to the electric chair for his role in it. — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2022 South Carolina lawmakers this year reauthorized firing squads as a method in addition to the electric chair after its highest court blocked the execution of prisoners who had no option besides electrocution. — NBC News, 9 Apr. 2022 Stinney was 14 when he was sent to South Carolina's electric chair after a one-day trial in 1944 in connection with the killings of two white girls. — CBS News, 17 June 2021 Tennessee has not conducted any executions since February 2020, when Nicholas Sutton died in the electric chair for the killing of a fellow inmate in an east Tennessee prison. — NBC News, 22 Apr. 2022 The state has not conducted any executions since February 2020, when Nicholas Sutton died in the electric chair for the killing of a fellow inmate in an east Tennessee prison. — CBS News, 21 Apr. 2022 By law, Moore will be asked to choose his method of execution – either the electric chair or firing squad – 2 weeks before execution day, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC). — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 8 Apr. 2022 That scoop puts Kasady in line for the electric chair, until the symbiote (increasingly unhappy with Brock as host) fuses with Kasady, with much stronger and more destructive results. — Peter Debruge, Variety, 30 Sep. 2021 An all-white jury found her guilty of first degree murder, and she was sentenced to the electric chair. — Arielle Gray, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Jan. 2022 See More

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“Electric chair.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electric%20chair. Accessed 16 May. 2022.

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