How to Use electric chair in a Sentence

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• The eighth and final time, his head was shaved for the electric chair.
  — Annalisa Quinn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
• Soon Julius and Ethel Rosenberg will die in the electric chair.
  — Anna Mundow, WSJ, 24 June 2021
• The state is one of nine that still use the electric chair and will become the fourth to use firing squads.
  — Fox News, 6 May 2021
• The man who’d gotten her pregnant had gone to the electric chair.
  — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2023
• Zagorski has asked to die in the electric chair instead.
  — Travis Loller, The Seattle Times, 23 Oct. 2018
• The lawyer who proudly sent the Rosenbergs to the electric chair and was a key force in the McCarthy witch hunts is a great role for Strong.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2024
• Accused of six murders and a rape, Townsend pleaded guilty to avoid the electric chair.
  — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2020
• The first of those alternatives was the electric chair.
  — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 3 Dec. 2020
• King was then sentenced to four months in the Georgia State Prison, 230 miles away in Reidsville -- and home to the state’s electric chair.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 17 Jan. 2023
• By the start of the 21st century, states all over the country were abandoning the electric chair.
  — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 3 Dec. 2020
• If no selection is made, then the electric chair is the default method of death, under the new law.
  — NBC News, 17 May 2021
• The state is one of only nine to still use the electric chair and will become only the fourth to allow a firing squad.
  — Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 6 May 2021
• Tennessee is one of six states in which inmates could choose the electric chair.
  — Fox News, 6 Dec. 2019
• He was convicted on three counts of murder and sentenced to death in the electric chair.
  — CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
• The last scene still provokes me: the character sits at the end of the stage, hair shaved off, strapped down to the electric chair crying out to anyone to help her.
  — Kt Hawbaker, Chicago Reader, 15 June 2018
• The last time Tennessee put someone to death by electric chair was 2007.
  — Travis Loller, The Seattle Times, 9 Oct. 2018
• Tennessee put 56-year-old Stephen West to death by electric chair last month.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2019
• Within 15 days, all nine of the Scottsboro Boys were convicted of rape, and eight were sentenced to die in the electric chair.
  — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2021
• One of his killers was put to death in Alabama’s electric chair, others served prison time.
  — al, 12 Apr. 2021
• An all-white jury found her guilty of first degree murder, and she was sentenced to the electric chair.
  — Arielle Gray, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Jan. 2022
• South Carolina is one of eight states that still electrocute inmates, and the state has said the electric chair is ready to use.
  — Meg Kinnard, Star Tribune, 4 June 2021
• Tennessee gives death-row inmates the option of the electric chair.
  — Jacob Gershman, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2018
• The state’s last execution took place in 1997, using the electric chair.
  — Washington Post, 5 July 2018
• They were convicted in just eight days by all-White juries and put to death in the electric chair in February 1951.
  — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021
• He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to die in the electric chair.
  — Paul W. Valentine, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2017
• The prosecution referred to Hains as the mastermind of the crime and proposed sending him to the electric chair for his role in it.
  — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2022
• Barring an 11th-hour stay, 53-year-old inmate Lee Hall is scheduled to die in the electric chair Thursday evening.
  — CBS News, 5 Dec. 2019
• And details in this line of work can mean the difference between a successful frame job or the electric chair.
  — The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
• The electric chair was promoted as civilized and at the same time imbued with the technological sublime, the mystery of electrical power harnessed by humans.
  — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
• This decision follows arguments from lawyers representing a group of people on death row that the electric chair and firing squad are cruel and unusual punishments.
  — CBS News, 31 July 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024