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the electric chair
" Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn't exist and people go in the electric chair and all that."
Gregory Corso

Meaning of "the electric chair" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF THE ELECTRIC CHAIR

the electric chair


WHAT DOES THE ELECTRIC CHAIR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Electric chair

Execution by electrocution, usually performed using an electric chair, is an execution method originating in the United States in which the condemned person is strapped to a specially built wooden chair and electrocuted through electrodes placed on the head and leg. This execution method was created by employees of Thomas Edison during the War of Currents, and has been used only in the United States and, for a period of several decades, in the Philippines. Historically, once the condemned person was attached to the chair, various cycles of alternating current would be passed through the individual's body, in order to cause fatal damage to the internal organs. The first more powerful jolt of electric current was designed to pass through the head and cause immediate unconsciousness and brain death. The second less powerful jolt was designed to cause fatal damage to the vital organs. Death may also be caused by electrical overstimulation of the heart. Although the electric chair has become a symbol of the death penalty in the United States, its use is in decline due to the rise of lethal injection, which is widely believed to be a more humane method of execution.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THE ELECTRIC CHAIR

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WORDS THAT END LIKE THE ELECTRIC CHAIR

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Synonyms and antonyms of the electric chair in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «the electric chair» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THE ELECTRIC CHAIR

Find out the translation of the electric chair to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of the electric chair from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «the electric chair» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

电椅
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

la silla eléctrica
570 millions of speakers
en

English

the electric chair
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

बिजली की कुर्सी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الكرسي الكهربائي
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

электрический стул
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

a cadeira elétrica
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

বৈদ্যুতিক চেয়ার
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

la chaise électrique
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Kerusi elektrik
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

der elektrische Stuhl
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

電気椅子
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

전기 의자
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Kursi listrik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ghế điện
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

மின்சார நாற்காலி
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

विद्युत खुर्ची
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Elektrikli sandalye
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

la sedia elettrica
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

Krzesło elektryczne
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

електричний стілець
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

scaunul electric
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

η ηλεκτρική καρέκλα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

die elektriese stoel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

elektriska stolen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

den elektriske stol
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about the electric chair

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4 QUOTES WITH «THE ELECTRIC CHAIR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word the electric chair.
1
Gregory Corso
Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn't exist and people go in the electric chair and all that.
2
J. Edgar Hoover
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
3
Nguyen Cao Ky
I never staged a coup. They picked me up. Like I say, they forced me to become premier, maybe hoping that by that way, they send me to the electric chair.
4
Sylvester Stallone
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE ELECTRIC CHAIR»

Discover the use of the electric chair in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to the electric chair and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Edison and the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death
Plumbing the fascinating history of electricity, Mark Essig explores America's love of technology and its fascination with violent death, capturing an era when the public was mesmerized and terrified by an invisible force that produced ...
Mark Essig, 2009
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The Electric Chair: An Unnatural American History
Its use in recent years has steadily declined, and in many states now the chair is used only as a museum display. This book provides a history of the electric chair and analyzes its features, its development, and the manner of its use.
Craig Brandon, 1999
3
Life in the Electric Chair: A Man and His Wife Explore a ...
Dan West has been in an electric wheelchair since 2004.
Dan West, Dan West, 2012
4
The Electric Chair
When you support Capital Punishment, the electric chair, and all other manners to kill a person, you are supporting the Devil's work, hence you are inevitably DESTROYING YOURSELVES, because you also destroy the lives of other people, AND ...
JonesHarvest Publishing, Lama Milkweek Augustine, Ph.D., 2008
5
Blood and volts: Edison, Tesla, and the electric chair
In Blood and Volts, Metzger creates a unique synthesis of scholarship, storytelling and cultural critique to present a clear and compelling story of America struggling to define itself through scientific innovation.
Th Metzger, 1996
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Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, ...
In this amazing story of high stakes competition between two titans, Richard Moran shows how the electric chair developed not out of the desire to be more humane but through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit ...
Richard Moran, 2007
7
Secrets of the Sideshows
A 1 976 edition of A. Brill's Bible of Building Plans, a catalog of instructional materials for carny showmen and amusement park operators, advertised the " Electric Chair — Sparks Shoot from Her Fingers." Workshop drawings and complete ...
Joe Nickell, 2005
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Popular Science
The nearest approach was the unsuccessful effort of a New York attorney in 1928 when the notorious murderess, Ruth Snyder, was put to death in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison, N.Y. ON THE night of the execution, Joseph V. Lonardo, ...
9
The Death Penalty: an American history
On their return, in an act both efacient and symbolic, they had Indiana prisoners use the components of the state prison's defunct gallows to build the electric chair . The back and the legs of the chair were formed from the braces and uprights of ...
Stuart BANNER, Stuart Banner, 2009
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Torture and Democracy
In Alabama, police whipped a man named Phillips at Atmore Prison Farm, and then bound him in the electric chair used for executions at Kilby Prison. After eight days and nights in the chair, he implicated four men charged with murder. 32 But ...
Darius Rejali, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE ELECTRIC CHAIR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term the electric chair is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tennessee Officials Fight Inmates' Attempt To Challenge Electric
The electric chair is Tennessee's plan B if the state can't get ahold of lethal drugs. The inmates argue it's unconstitutional, but the state argues that they can't ... «BuzzFeed News, May 15»
2
Alabama Lawmakers Vote To Bring Back the Electric Chair
The Alabama House passed a bill this week that would allow the state to once again put people to death by electric chair if the currently low supply of lethal ... «ThinkProgress, Mar 15»
3
TN Supreme Court agrees to hear electric chair case
The Tennessee Supreme Court will decide whether a death row inmate can challenge the state's back-up method of execution: the electric chair. The court ... «The Tennessean, Feb 15»
4
Alabama legislator proposing to bring back electric chair
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – An Alabama legislator is proposing to bring back the electric chair. The proposal would let Alabama use the electric chair for ... «whnt.com, Feb 15»
5
Billy Ray Irick, Killer Who Could Face Electric Chair, Wins Reprieve
A death-row inmate who could have been the first to face the electric chair since Tennessee brought it back has won a reprieve from the state's highest court. «NBCNews.com, Sep 14»
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Death row inmates challenge electric chair in Tennessee execution …
An empty electric chair is shown in the Death House at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining An empty electric chair in New York; the electric chair, while still legal in ... «The Guardian, Sep 14»
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Death row inmates sue to stop electric chair 'torture'
A group of 10 death row inmates suing over lethal injection in Tennessee argued on Friday that the state's backup plan — the electric chair — is an ... «The Tennessean, Aug 14»
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Alabama lawmaker supports return to electric chair
In this 1994 file photo, Tennessee's electric chair and its control panel are shown ... the electric chair since drug shortages have brought lethal injections to halt. «Chattanooga Times Free Press, Aug 14»
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5 things to know about Tennessee electric chair
A law took effect this week in Tennessee making it the first U.S. state to have the option of executing death row inmates with the electric chair if drugs for lethal ... «The Tennessean, Jul 14»
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Electric chair brings life to old death penalty debates
The electric chair is now an authorized backup to lethal injection in Tennessee. It's the first state to make the electric chair mandatory when lethal injection drugs ... «THV 11, May 14»
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