electric chair
noun
1
: a chair used in legal electrocution
2
: the penalty of death by electrocution
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Sigmon, who chose the firing squad over lethal injection or the electric chair, always admitted to killing the Larkes.
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Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2025
In 2021, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill requiring death row inmates to choose between firing squad or the electric chair, or lethal injection if the drugs are available.
—Ivana Saric, Axios, 7 Mar. 2025
Other states have reauthorized the use of electric chairs, while Alabama last year started executing people using nitrogen gas.
—Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
Mahdi, 42, chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.
—Arkansas Online, 12 Apr. 2025
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Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2025
In 2021, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill requiring death row inmates to choose between firing squad or the electric chair, or lethal injection if the drugs are available.
—Ivana Saric, Axios, 7 Mar. 2025
Other states have reauthorized the use of electric chairs, while Alabama last year started executing people using nitrogen gas.
—Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
Mahdi, 42, chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.
—Arkansas Online, 12 Apr. 2025
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“Electric chair.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electric%20chair. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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