In fact I cannot imagine myself condemning a man to the noose or the electric chair if I had to take, as an individual, the responsibility for his death.

Mr. Christiansen knows that a soldier will get the Distinguished Service Medal for conduct that would land him in prison for life or the electric chair as a civilian.

* 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.

As Governor, he oversaw four executions: one by electric chair and three by lethal injection.

* Electrodes for execution by the electric chair

He is executed in the sequel Death of a Transvestite ( 1967 ) after a struggle for the right to go to the electric chair dressed as Glenda.

The war against AC led him to become involved in the development and promotion of the electric chair ( using AC ) as an attempt to portray AC to have greater lethal potential than DC.

Edison's success in promoting direct current as less lethal also led to alternating current being used in the electric chair adopted by New York in 1889 as a supposedly humane execution method.

Because Westinghouse was angered by the decision, he funded Eighth Amendment-based appeals for inmates set to die in the electric chair, ultimately resulting in Edison providing the generators which powered early electrocutions and testifying successfully on behalf of the state that electrocution was a painless method of execution.

* August 6 – At Auburn Prison in New York, William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed in the electric chair.

** Murderer Richard Speck is sentenced to death in the electric chair for killing eight student nurses in Chicago.

** John Spenkelink is executed in Florida, in the first use of the electric chair in America after the reintroduction of death penalty in 1976.

* January 24 – Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair.

Others included a black horse mating over a white one, close-up pictures of tattoos reading " HIV Positive " on the bodies of men and women, a cemetery of many cross-like tombstones, a collage consisting of genitals of persons of various races, a priest and nun about to engage in a romantic kiss, pictures of inmates on death row, an electric chair, an advert showing a boy with hair shaped into the devil's horns, three different hearts with " black ", " white " and " yellow " written onto them ( from March 1996 ), and a picture of a bloodied t-shirt and pants ridden with bullet holes from a soldier killed in the Bosnian War ( this one appeared in February 1994 ).

* Dalton Prejean, American murderer executed by the electric chair in Louisiana in 1990

During his term, eight inmates were put to death by electric chair.

The movies gave Wednesday a much more serious and mature personality with a deadpan wit and a morbid fascination with trying to physically harm, or possibly murder, her brother ( she was seen strapping him into an electric chair, for example, and preparing to pull the switch ); she was apparently often successful, but Pugsley never died.

The setting for Cold Mountain State Penitentiary is inspired by Louisiana State Penitentiary, although unlike in the book, Louisiana only instated the electric chair in 1938, while the book is set in 1932.

Run by the charismatic warden, Juan Ruiz " El Fuego " Escarzaga ( Tony Plana ), the place is known for its new state of the art death chamber where the condemned can choose from five different ways to die — lethal injection, gas chamber, hanging, firing squad, or electric chair.

When Sascha rescues Lester, the 49ers strap June to the electric chair and threaten to kill her, all while Ellen and her team prepare a rescue plan from the mainland.

Old Sparky, the electric chair used at Sing Sing prison

Execution by electrocution, usually performed using an electric chair, is an execution method originating in the United States in which the condemned person is strapped to a specially built wooden chair and electrocuted through electrodes placed on the body.

Although in the United States the electric chair has become a symbol of the death penalty, its use is in decline due to the rise of lethal injection, which is widely believed to be a more humane method of execution.

In the states of Kentucky and Tennessee, the electric chair has been retired except for those whose capital crimes were committed prior to legislated dates in 1998 ( Kentucky: March 31, 1998 ; Tennessee: December 31, 1998 ) and who chose electrocution.

The electric gadget is most helpful when there are many crowned teeth and in individuals who are elderly, bedfast with a chronic disease, or are handicapped by disorders such as cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy.

A flashlight or electric lantern also should be available for those periods when a brighter light is needed.

A portable electric heater is advisable for shelters in cold climates.

Do build a wall of glowing coals six to eight inches in front of meat that is barbecued on an electric spit.

In free-burning electric arcs, for instance, approximately 90% of the total arc power is transferred to the anode giving rise to local heat fluxes in excess of Af as measured by the authors -- the exact value depending on the arc atmosphere.

The simplest division, and the one most frequently used ( with subdivisions ) in gas and electric rate cases, is a threefold division of the total operating and capital costs into `` customer costs '', `` energy '' or `` volumetric costs '', and `` demand '' or `` capacity '' costs.

Conventional energy for processing foods is available in the range of at most a few cents per kwhr for electric power and the equivalent of a few mills per kwhr for process steam.

The ampere ( SI unit symbol: A ), often shortened to amp, is the SI unit of electric current ( quantity symbol: I, i ) and is one of the seven SI base units.

In practical terms, the ampere is a measure of the amount of electric charge passing a point in an electric circuit per unit time with 6. 241 × 10 < sup > 18 </ sup > electrons, or one coulomb per second constituting one ampere.

Ampère's force law states that there is an attractive or repulsive force between two parallel wires carrying an electric current.

Argon is mostly used as an inert shielding gas in welding and other high-temperature industrial processes where ordinarily non-reactive substances become reactive ; for example, an argon atmosphere is used in graphite electric furnaces to prevent the graphite from burning.

Another environmental concern is a significant drop in Lake Sevan's water level because of drawdowns for irrigation and the diversion of water to hydroelectric plants to compensate for the electric power lost through the inactivity of the nuclear plant at Metsamor.

Because of their relatively large mass, + 2 electric charge and relatively low velocity, alpha particles are very likely to interact with other atoms and lose their energy, so their forward motion is effectively stopped within a few centimeters of air.

Another convention is to distinguish particles by their electric charge.

Corresponding to most kinds of particles, there is an associated antiparticle with the same mass and opposite electric charge.

The SI unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after him.

In September of 1820, Ampère ’ s friend and eventual eulogist François Arago showed the members of the French Academy of Sciences the surprising discovery of Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted that a magnetic needle is deflected by an adjacent electric current.

Alder is appreciated for its claimed ( but laboratory unsubstantiated ) bright tone, and has been adopted by many electric guitar manufacturers.

As well Alberta is connected to the TasnCanada pipeline system ( natural gas ) to Eastern Canada, the Northern Border Pipeline ( gas ), Alliance Pipeline ( gas ) and Enbridge Pipeline System ( oil ) to the Eastern United States, the Gas Transmission Northwest and Northwest Pipeline ( gas ) to the Western United States, and the McNeill HVDC Back-to-back station ( electric power ) to Saskatchewan.

* 1914 – In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.

The last type of guitar is commonly called an " acoustic-electric " or " electro-acoustic " guitar, as it can be played either " unplugged " as an acoustic or plugged in as an electric.

An anode is an electrode through which electric current flows into a polarized electrical device.