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Electric chair
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a device used for carrying out capital punishment by electrocution
electric chair
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The electric chair was used as a method of execution in many states before the introduction of lethal injection.
The condemned prisoner was sentenced to death by the electric chair for his crimes.
The executioner prepared the electric chair for the condemned prisoner, ensuring it was in working order.
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.
