electric chair
noun
1
: a chair used in legal electrocution
2
: the penalty of death by electrocution
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The State Legislature legalized executions by firing squad and electric chair in 2021, but it was blocked by a lower court the following year.
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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
If Bowman hadn't chosen from among the three, the default method would have been the electric chair.
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Bowman grew up in a rural area in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, about halfway between Charleston and Columbia.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
Both of the inmates chose to die by bullets instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 9 June 2025
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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
If Bowman hadn't chosen from among the three, the default method would have been the electric chair.
More about Marion Bowman
Bowman grew up in a rural area in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, about halfway between Charleston and Columbia.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
Both of the inmates chose to die by bullets instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 9 June 2025
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“Electric chair.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electric%20chair. Accessed 26 Jun. 2025.
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