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    Electrocution is death or severe injury caused by electric shock from electric current passing through the body. The word is derived from "electro" and...
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    Electrocuting an Elephant (also known as Electrocution of an Elephant) is a 1903 American black-and-white silent actuality short depicting the killing...
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    used for capital punishment through electrocution. The condemned is strapped to a custom wooden chair and electrocuted via electrodes attached to the head...
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    from an electric shock the cause of death is generally referred to as electrocution. Electric injury occurs upon contact of a body part with electricity...
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    Electrocute is an American-German rock group. It was founded by Nicole Morier, a singer from Albuquerque New Mexico, and former member Mia Dime in Berlin...
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  • suicide may also touch or be otherwise drawn into contact with it, adding electrocution to the cause of death. Unlike other methods, rail suicide often has...
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    Matilda "Tillie" Ziegler, his common-law wife, a year earlier. Although electrocution had previously been successfully used to kill a horse, Kemmler's execution...
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  • the Electrocution is a 1980 collection of two short stories by Ray Bradbury. "The Last Circus" is original to this collection. "The Electrocution" first...
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  • We are Electrocution is the debut album by nihilistic new wave punk rock band Le Shok released in 2000 on GSL. Initially available only in limited quantities...
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  • On 2 February 2022, a power cable collapsed in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 26 people. The accident occurred at a market in Matadi-Kibala...
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  • 45 people executed, 38 were executed via lethal injection and 7 via electrocution. Capital punishment in South Carolina Capital punishment in the United...
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    Topsy (elephant) (category Deaths by electrocution)
    event. Their film of the electrocution part was released to be viewed in coin-operated kinetoscopes under the title Electrocuting an Elephant. It is probably...
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    However, inmates may still choose electrocution. As of 2024[update], only Wayne C. Doty has opted for death by electrocution; Doty is still alive, and his...
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  • Carolina by electrocution in "Old Sparky", the state's electric chair. He remains the most recent person executed in South Carolina via electrocution. Reed...
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  • American put to death by electrocution since July 20, 2006. The last was Brandon Wayne Hedrick in Virginia, who also chose electrocution over injection. His...
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  • Peter Wildoer is a Swedish musician who is the drummer for Darkane, Electrocution 250 and Grimmark. He has also drummed for the bands Armageddon, Majestic...
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  • scenes. First: Panoramic view of Auburn Prison taken the morning of the electrocution. The picture then dissolves into the corridor of murderer's row. The...
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    Kemmler after the electrocution, but he never gained permission from the state. Fell was one of the attending physicians at the electrocution, making sure...
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    people in West Bengal died from electrocution. In south Kolkata’s Bhowanipore, 20-year-old Saurabh Prasad Gupta was electrocuted to death in a waterlogged street;...
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    Hale. They explored many forms of execution and in 1888 recommended electrocution using Southwick's electric-chair idea with metal conductors attached...
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    injection would be declared unconstitutional (electrocution in Arkansas; nitrogen hypoxia, electrocution, or firing squad in Mississippi and Oklahoma;...
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    electrocution after a swimming pool at a water park in Akyazı became electrified. Three children aged 12, 15 and 17 were the first to be electrocuted...
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  • serial killer in Lexington County, South Carolina, who was executed by electrocution for the murders of Sharon Smith and Debra Helmick. Bell forced Smith...
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  • Electrical Power Sources For the Electrocution and Extinction of the Human Race... was one of five singles Servotron released in 1996. It was released...
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    Retrieved 30 April 2009. Urban, James E.; Alberto Broce (October 2000). "Electrocution of House Flies in Bug Zappers Releases Bacteria and Viruses". Current...
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  • Robert Dale Henderson – Electrocution on April 21, 1993 (aged 48) for a killing spree. James Dupree Henry – Electrocution on September 20, 1984 (aged...
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    methods Hanging Shooting firing squad Lethal injection Nitrogen hypoxia Electrocution Gas chamber Beheading Stoning Ancient and post-classical methods Damnatio...
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  • states to have executed more people via electrocution than lethal injection (Nebraska, which required electrocution until 2009, is the other). The 4 victims...
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    the jury's sentencing recommendation. Tafero was to be executed by electrocution. The machine, dubbed "Old Sparky", malfunctioned, causing six-inch flames...
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    The Donnas (redirect from The Electrocutes)
    changed their name to "The Electrocutes". Towards the end of their high school days, while they were still known as the Electrocutes, they decided to create...
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