electric chair
noun
1
: a chair used in legal electrocution
2
: the penalty of death by electrocution
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In South Carolina, inmates can choose between lethal injection, the firing squad or the electric chair.
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Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025
That decision came after South Carolina passed a law in 2021 that made death by electric chair or firing squad legal options for people on death row.
—Eduardo Medina, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
In February 1925, Ford cheated the electric chair by twisting up a bed sheet, suspending it from a bar over the door in the cell, and hanging himself.
—Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2025
Instead of the electric chair, Herndon would have suffered a slow, painful death through hard labor.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
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Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025
That decision came after South Carolina passed a law in 2021 that made death by electric chair or firing squad legal options for people on death row.
—Eduardo Medina, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
In February 1925, Ford cheated the electric chair by twisting up a bed sheet, suspending it from a bar over the door in the cell, and hanging himself.
—Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2025
Instead of the electric chair, Herndon would have suffered a slow, painful death through hard labor.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
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“Electric chair.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electric%20chair. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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