The mechanical means employed in electrocution are practically the same at Sing Sing, Clinton, and Auburn prisons.
The physical phenomena caused in the body by electrocution as at present conducted are comparatively simple, and such as we should logically expect.
But a plea of half-sleep will cover mistakes, and conversation about the pre-electrocution period is the nearest approach to taking Sally into her confidence that she can hope for.
To be on the safe side the legislature passed a law requiring that the electrocution of a criminal should be followed immediately by the dissection of his body.
She could not insure his sitting in the electrocution chair, but that was no reason why he should go unpunished.
I don't personally care whether you go to eternity via our recently invented electrocution chair, or whether you scoot.
When the first cyclist was found, I suspected electrocution in some form, and the other two cases went to confirm the suspicion.
Jack Jaikes had given up his idea of a wholesale electrocution of an attacking force--that is, Dennis Deventer had compelled him to give it up.
But electrocution by a live wire is a different thing.
And then, as the guards reluctantly began to adjust the straps about his body, three men burst into loud sobs and rushed from the room, bitterly denouncing the electrocution as savagery, and refusing to witness the proceedings any further.
One of the strangest and most pathetic tragedies that has ever happened in the State of New York has just taken place within the house of electrocution here, the result of which must cause the whole civilized world to pause and shudder.
The twelve witnesses invited by the Warden, and made necessary by law, together with the brain experts, have arrived upon the scene, and everything is in complete readiness for the electrocution of John Convert.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "electrocution" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
