The electric chair is a specialized device employed for carrying out capital punishment through the process of electrocution. During its use, the individual...

up electric chair in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Electric chair is a chair that a condemned prisoner is strapped in and electrocuted. Electric chair...

Big Electric Chair, created in 1967, is part of a series of works by Andy Warhol depicting an electric chair. Death by electrocution was a controversial...

Gertie was the nickname given by death row inmates to the Louisiana electric chair. It is also widely known for the failed execution of Willie Francis...

inventor from Buffalo, New York. He is credited with inventing the electric chair as a method of legal execution. He was also a professor at the University...

largest AC equipment manufacturer, Westinghouse Electric. He also pushed to have the first electric chair, which was being developed by the state of New...

Wayne County & the Electric Chairs was a rock band that was part of the first wave of punk bands from the 1970s. The band was headed by Georgia-born singer...

the chair" is to say that they will be executed by an electric chair. Alternatively, it can be a metaphor for other harsh punishment. List of chairs for...

"electrocution" was coined in 1889 in the US just before the first use of the electric chair and originally referred to only electrical execution and not other electrical...

Old Sparky is the nickname of the electric chairs in Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma,...