How to Use electric chair in a Sentence

electric chair

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  • The eighth and final time, his head was shaved for the electric chair.
    — Annalisa Quinn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
  • Soon Julius and Ethel Rosenberg will die in the electric chair.
    — Anna Mundow, WSJ, 24 June 2021
  • The state is one of nine that still use the electric chair and will become the fourth to use firing squads.
    — Fox News, 6 May 2021
  • The man who’d gotten her pregnant had gone to the electric chair.
    — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Zagorski has asked to die in the electric chair instead.
    — Travis Loller, The Seattle Times, 23 Oct. 2018
  • The lawyer who proudly sent the Rosenbergs to the electric chair and was a key force in the McCarthy witch hunts is a great role for Strong.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2024
  • Accused of six murders and a rape, Townsend pleaded guilty to avoid the electric chair.
    — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The first of those alternatives was the electric chair.
    — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 3 Dec. 2020
  • King was then sentenced to four months in the Georgia State Prison, 230 miles away in Reidsville -- and home to the state’s electric chair.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 17 Jan. 2023
  • By the start of the 21st century, states all over the country were abandoning the electric chair.
    — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 3 Dec. 2020
  • If no selection is made, then the electric chair is the default method of death, under the new law.
    — NBC News, 17 May 2021
  • The state is one of only nine to still use the electric chair and will become only the fourth to allow a firing squad.
    — Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 6 May 2021
  • Tennessee is one of six states in which inmates could choose the electric chair.
    — Fox News, 6 Dec. 2019
  • He was convicted on three counts of murder and sentenced to death in the electric chair.
    — CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The last scene still provokes me: the character sits at the end of the stage, hair shaved off, strapped down to the electric chair crying out to anyone to help her.
    — Kt Hawbaker, Chicago Reader, 15 June 2018
  • The last time Tennessee put someone to death by electric chair was 2007.
    — Travis Loller, The Seattle Times, 9 Oct. 2018
  • Tennessee put 56-year-old Stephen West to death by electric chair last month.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Within 15 days, all nine of the Scottsboro Boys were convicted of rape, and eight were sentenced to die in the electric chair.
    — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2021
  • One of his killers was put to death in Alabama’s electric chair, others served prison time.
    — al, 12 Apr. 2021
  • An all-white jury found her guilty of first degree murder, and she was sentenced to the electric chair.
    — Arielle Gray, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Jan. 2022
  • South Carolina is one of eight states that still electrocute inmates, and the state has said the electric chair is ready to use.
    — Meg Kinnard, Star Tribune, 4 June 2021
  • Tennessee gives death-row inmates the option of the electric chair.
    — Jacob Gershman, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2018
  • The state’s last execution took place in 1997, using the electric chair.
    — Washington Post, 5 July 2018
  • They were convicted in just eight days by all-White juries and put to death in the electric chair in February 1951.
    — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021
  • He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to die in the electric chair.
    — Paul W. Valentine, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2017
  • The prosecution referred to Hains as the mastermind of the crime and proposed sending him to the electric chair for his role in it.
    — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Barring an 11th-hour stay, 53-year-old inmate Lee Hall is scheduled to die in the electric chair Thursday evening.
    — CBS News, 5 Dec. 2019
  • And details in this line of work can mean the difference between a successful frame job or the electric chair.
    — The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The day after that filing was the deadline for Owens to choose his method of execution: electric chair, firing squad or lethal injection.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The electric chair was promoted as civilized and at the same time imbued with the technological sublime, the mystery of electrical power harnessed by humans.
    — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024

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