electric chair

electric chair. A chair that is wired so that electrodes can be fastened to a condemned person’s head and one leg and a lethal charge passed through the body for the purpose of carrying out a death penalty. • The electric chair was first used in 1890 at the Auburn State Prison in New York.

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