the electric chairnoun [ S ]
uk/ɪˌlek.trɪk ˈtʃeər/us/ɪˌlek.trɪk ˈtʃer/a special chair used to kill a criminal with a current of electricity, that can be used in some US states
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Death penalties
- behead
- burn
- capital punishment
- chair
- condemn
- condemn sb to (do) sth
- condemned
- decapitate
- execute
- execution
- executioner
- gallows
- hanging
- hangman
- hung, drawn, and quartered idiom
- noose
- scaffold
- stake
- stone
- string
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Examples from literature
- Blizzard was in the power of that which all his mature life he had feared more than hanging or the electric chair, more even than prisons.
- But if you can't prove that there was no premeditation, you're tagged for the electric chair.
- The accusation, the trial, the conviction, the sentence to death in the electric chair—all a dream.
- The evidence against him is sufficient to send him to the electric chair.
- To-day they greeted its appearance with as much enthusiasm as they would the electric chair.