electric chair
noun
1
: a chair used in legal electrocution
2
: the penalty of death by electrocution
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Louisiana imposed the nitrogen gas method on him, while all four Alabama inmates elected the gas method over lethal injection and the electric chair.
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Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025
The state's unused electric chair was sat across from him in the same room.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2025
Seven have died in the electric chair and 39 by lethal injection.
—Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2025
Combined with his two escapes from prison, representing himself in court, the sheer number of victims and the depravity of his crimes, Bundy left behind a horrifying, but powerful, legacy that remains over 30 years after his death by electric chair on Jan. 24, 1989.
—Jessica Sager, People.com, 24 Jan. 2025
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Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025
The state's unused electric chair was sat across from him in the same room.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2025
Seven have died in the electric chair and 39 by lethal injection.
—Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2025
Combined with his two escapes from prison, representing himself in court, the sheer number of victims and the depravity of his crimes, Bundy left behind a horrifying, but powerful, legacy that remains over 30 years after his death by electric chair on Jan. 24, 1989.
—Jessica Sager, People.com, 24 Jan. 2025
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“Electric chair.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electric%20chair. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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