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Definition of Electric chair
1. Noun. An instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person. "The murderer was sentenced to die in the chair"
Definition of Electric chair
1. Noun. A device used for performing execution by electrocution. ¹
2. Noun. An electrically powered wheelchair ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Electric Chair
Literary usage of Electric chair
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the ... Annual Congress of Correction of the American by American Correctional Association (1903)
"Gardner halted a moment at the stool of the electric chair, deliberately opened
his Bible, and with a quiet, but impressive voice, read Matthew 5 :43-45. ..."
2. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by New York (State). Constitutional Convention (1916)
"The first time he over thought of the electric chair at all was when the ...
Don't ask these twelve men to say whether a man shall go to the electric chair. ..."
3. Breach of Trust: Physician Participation in Executions in the United States by American College of Physicians, Human Rights Watch (Organization), Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.) (1994)
"... the commission recommended electrocution as the most humane method of execution,
New York State approved the construction of an electric chair in 1888. ..."
4. A Manual of Legal Medicine: For the Use of Practitioners and Students of by Justin Herold (1898)
"... its way to choose an uncertain method, for it does not of necessity follow
that even the strong current received in the electric chair produces death. ..."
5. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1907)
"Nothing is more clear than that the gallows and the electric chair do not prevent
... The advocates of the scaffold and the electric chair are mere maudlin ..."
6. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"A. The electric chair. Q. You knew that before you shot lier? A. I read it enough
in the newspapers to know that a man that commits a deliberate murder, ..."
7. Penology in the United States by Louis Newton Robinson (1922)
"Under the shadows of the gallows or the electric chair, men are brought to a
realization of their guilt and of the wrong which they have done to society. ..."
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