electric chair
noun
1
: a chair used in legal electrocution
2
: the penalty of death by electrocution
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Both of the inmates chose to die by bullets instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.
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Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 9 June 2025
Then the firing squads and hangings of the Wild West days moved to the electric chair, which eventually gave way to the gas chamber and in more recent history, lethal injection.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 6 June 2025
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were charged along with Sobell, were sentenced to death through electric chair.
—Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 10 May 2025
In 2021, the state passed a law allowing prisoners to choose the firing squad as a method of execution, in addition to the electric chair and lethal injection.
—Chiara Eisner, NPR, 8 May 2025
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Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 9 June 2025
Then the firing squads and hangings of the Wild West days moved to the electric chair, which eventually gave way to the gas chamber and in more recent history, lethal injection.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 6 June 2025
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were charged along with Sobell, were sentenced to death through electric chair.
—Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 10 May 2025
In 2021, the state passed a law allowing prisoners to choose the firing squad as a method of execution, in addition to the electric chair and lethal injection.
—Chiara Eisner, NPR, 8 May 2025
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“Electric chair.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electric%20chair. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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