1971 J. Brown & A. Groff 84 I was next door to ‘Old Sparky’—the electric chair.
1994 27 Nov. i. 49/1 David Letterman gets a pretty good laugh with references to the expected return of ‘Old Sparky’, New York State's electric chair.
2001 K. Lette 233 I was twenty-four hours from gettin' fried by Old Sparky, all for a crime I never done.