How to Use electric chair in a Sentence

electric chair

noun
  • The eighth and final time, his head was shaved for the electric chair.
    — Annalisa Quinn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
  • The state's unused electric chair was sat across from him in the same room.
    — Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The electric chair was moved to Tucker.
    — Arkansas Online, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The man who’d gotten her pregnant had gone to the electric chair.
    — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Many inmates died inside the prison, some in the electric chair.
    — Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The electric chair is also legal there.
    — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 14 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Tennessee is one of six states in which inmates could choose the electric chair.
    — Fox News, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Bryant chose to die by firing squad over lethal injection and the electric chair last month.
    — Greg Norman, FOXNews.com, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Bryant chose to die by firing squad over lethal injection and the electric chair last month.
    — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Whether he is hanged or sent to the electric chair, there should be a minimum amount of delay.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The last three died by the electric chair, which those on death row can choose as their method of execution.
    — Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The first of those alternatives was the electric chair.
    — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Soon Julius and Ethel Rosenberg will die in the electric chair.
    — Anna Mundow, WSJ, 24 June 2021
  • He was convicted on three counts of murder and sentenced to death in the electric chair.
    — CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Mahdi can choose to die by lethal injection, the electric chair or a firing squad.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2025
  • At the time, the electric chair was said to be the most humane execution method.
    — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 4 June 2026
  • 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 confessions were a last-ditch effort by Bundy to avoid the electric chair.
    — Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Accused of six murders and a rape, Townsend pleaded guilty to avoid the electric chair.
    — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2020
  • One of his killers was put to death in Alabama’s electric chair, others served prison time.
    — al, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Seven have died in the electric chair and 39 by lethal injection.
    — Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Tennessee gives death-row inmates the option of the electric chair.
    — Jacob Gershman, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2018
  • At least once in the 20th century, the electric chair also failed to kill.
    — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 4 June 2026
  • Both of the inmates chose to die by bullets instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 9 June 2025
  • He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to die in the electric chair.
    — Paul W. Valentine, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Ripley and Jade toppled over the top rope in an electric chair position.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • 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
  • Instead of the electric chair, Herndon would have suffered a slow, painful death through hard labor.
    — John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Tennessee put 56-year-old Stephen West to death by electric chair last month.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2019

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