electric chair
noun
1
: a chair used in legal electrocution
2
: the penalty of death by electrocution
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South Carolina inmates can choose their method of execution, with the electric chair and the firing squad as the other available options.
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Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 9 June 2025
Now, depending on where they're imprisoned, inmates have a virtual buffet of ways to die: firing squad, nitrogen gas, the electric chair and still, lethal injection.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 6 June 2025
The State Legislature legalized executions by firing squad and electric chair in 2021, but it was blocked by a lower court the following year.
—Ben Brachfeld, People.com, 7 Mar. 2025
When lethal injections take place, a gurney is in the death chamber and behind it is a curtain that blocks the view of the electric chair and the firing squad chair.
—CBS News, 4 Mar. 2025
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Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 9 June 2025
Now, depending on where they're imprisoned, inmates have a virtual buffet of ways to die: firing squad, nitrogen gas, the electric chair and still, lethal injection.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 6 June 2025
The State Legislature legalized executions by firing squad and electric chair in 2021, but it was blocked by a lower court the following year.
—Ben Brachfeld, People.com, 7 Mar. 2025
When lethal injections take place, a gurney is in the death chamber and behind it is a curtain that blocks the view of the electric chair and the firing squad chair.
—CBS News, 4 Mar. 2025
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“Electric chair.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electric%20chair. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.
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