electric chair
Plural
electric chairs
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a device used for carrying out capital punishment by electrocution
- The condemned prisoner was sentenced to death by the electric chair for his crimes.
- The electric chair was used as a method of execution in many states before the introduction of lethal injection.
- Witnesses gathered outside the prison to protest the use of the electric chair as a form of capital punishment.
- Death row inmates often spend years awaiting their fate, including the possibility of death by the electric chair.
- The executioner prepared the electric chair for the condemned prisoner, ensuring it was in working order.
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