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electrocution|ɪlɛktrəˈkjuːʃən|
[f. prec.: see -tion.]
Execution by electricity.
1890Evening News 6 May 4/1 The Supreme Court of the United States has refused to grant a writ of habeas corpus in the case of the wife murderer under sentence of electrocution. 1890Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 4 Aug., Buffalo parties invited to witness the Kemmler electrocution. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 579/1 Sentence of death is executed by hanging by the neck except in New York and Ohio, where it is carried out by ‘electrocution’, or by passing through the body of the convict a current of electricity of sufficient intensity to cause death and until death is caused.
b. Death caused in any way by electricity.
1940in Chambers's Techn. Dict. 1948Nat. Geogr. Mag. Mar. 395/1 A few whiffs of gas or chloroform are sometimes used, but most ranchers prefer electrocution. |