100 relations: Alabama, Alfred P. Southwick, Allen Lee Davis, Alternating current, Arc lamp, Arkansas, Auburn Correctional Facility, Austin E. Lathrop, Autopsy, Brain death, Breaking wheel, Brush (electric), Brush Electrical Machines, Buffalo, New York, Capital punishment, Carlos Frederick MacDonald, Clinton Correctional Facility, Cruel and unusual punishment, David B. Hill, Death by burning, Direct current, Double jeopardy, Dow Hover, Edward Charles Spitzka, Edwin Davis (executioner), Elbridge Thomas Gerry, Electrical injury, Electrocution, Electrode, Electrotherapy, Elihu Thomson, Espionage, Ex parte Quirin, Executioner, Fact-finding, Florida, Frederick Peterson, George Fell, George Westinghouse, Georgia (U.S. state), Greensville Correctional Center, Gregg v. Georgia, Ground (electricity), Gruesome Gertie, Habeas corpus, Hanging, Harold P. Brown, Heart, Indiana, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, ..., James French (murderer), John Spenkelink, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Kentucky, Lethal injection, Lizzie Halliday, Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, Lynda Lyon Block, Maggie dela Riva, Maria Barbella, Martha M. Place, Matthew Hale (New York), Mississippi, Mississippi River, Nebraska, Neurology, New York Court of Appeals, New York Daily News, Nuclear weapon, Oklahoma, Old Smokey, Old Sparky, Operation Pastorius, Pedro Medina, Philippines, Photojournalism, Robert G. Elliott, Roswell P. Flower, Ruth Snyder, Sabotage, Serial killer, Sing Sing, South Carolina, Soviet Union, State electrician, Supreme Court of the United States, Tennessee, The Washington Post, Thomas Edison, Thomson-Houston Electric Company, Tom Howard (photographer), United States, Virginia, War of the currents, Washington, D.C., Westinghouse Electric Corporation, William Kemmler, Willie Francis, World War II, Yellow Mama. Expand index (50 more) »
Alabama
Alabama is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.
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Alfred P. Southwick
Alfred P. Southwick (1826–1898), was a steam-boat engineer, dentist and inventor from Buffalo, New York.
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Allen Lee Davis
Allen Lee Davis (July 20, 1944 – July 8, 1999) was an American mass murderer executed for the May 11, 1982, Jacksonville, Florida murder of Nancy Weiler, who was three months pregnant at the time.
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Alternating current
Alternating current (AC) is an electric current which periodically reverses direction, in contrast to direct current (DC) which flows only in one direction.
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Arc lamp
An arc lamp or arc light is a lamp that produces light by an electric arc (also called a voltaic arc).
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Arkansas
Arkansas is a state in the southeastern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2017.
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Auburn Correctional Facility
Auburn Correctional Facility is a state prison on State Street in Auburn, New York, United States.
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Austin E. Lathrop
Austin Eugene "Cap" Lathrop (October 5, 1865July 26, 1950) was an American politician, industrialist, and outspoken opponent of Alaskan statehood.
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Autopsy
An autopsy (post-mortem examination, obduction, necropsy, or autopsia cadaverum) is a highly specialized surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause and manner of death or to evaluate any disease or injury that may be present for research or educational purposes.
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Brain death
Brain death is the complete loss of brain function (including involuntary activity necessary to sustain life).
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Breaking wheel
The breaking wheel, also known as the Catherine wheel or simply the wheel, was a torture device used for public execution from antiquity into early modern times by breaking a criminal's bones and/or bludgeoning them to death.
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Brush (electric)
A brush is a device which conducts current between stationary wires and moving parts, most commonly in a rotating shaft.
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Brush Electrical Machines
Brush Electrical Machines is a manufacturer of electrical generators typically for gas turbine and steam turbine driven applications.
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Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second largest city in the state of New York and the 81st most populous city in the United States.
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Capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.
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Carlos Frederick MacDonald
Carlos Frederick MacDonald, M.D. (August 29, 1845 – May 29, 1926) was a psychiatrist, and the chairman of the New York State Commission in Lunacy from 1880 to 1896.
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Clinton Correctional Facility
Clinton Correctional Facility is a New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision maximum security state prison for men located in the Village of Dannemora, New York.
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Cruel and unusual punishment
Cruel and unusual punishment is a phrase describing punishment that is considered unacceptable due to the suffering, pain, or humiliation it inflicts on the person subjected to it.
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David B. Hill
David Bennett Hill (August 29, 1843October 20, 1910) was an American politician from New York who was the 29th Governor of New York from 1885 to 1891.
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Death by burning
Deliberately causing death through the effects of combustion, or effects of exposure to extreme heat, has a long history as a form of capital punishment.
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Direct current
Direct current (DC) is the unidirectional flow of electric charge.
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Double jeopardy
Double jeopardy is a procedural defence that prevents an accused person from being tried again on the same (or similar) charges and on the same facts, following a valid acquittal or conviction.
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Dow Hover
Dow B. Hover (c. Nov 16 1900 – June 1, 1990) was the last person to serve as a New York State Electrician, the state's executioner and operator of the electric chair; and he was the last person to serve as an executioner in the now no-death penalty state.
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Edward Charles Spitzka
Edward Charles Spitzka (November 10, 1852 – January 13, 1914) was an eminent late-19th century alienist, neurologist, and anatomist.
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Edwin Davis (executioner)
Edwin F. Davis (May 28, 1846 – May 26, 1923), of Corning, Steuben County, New York was the first "state electrician" (executioner) for the State of New York.
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Elbridge Thomas Gerry
Elbridge Thomas Gerry (December 25, 1837 – February 18, 1927), usually called "Commodore" Gerry due to the office he held with the New York Yacht Club from 1886 to 1892, was an American lawyer and reformer who was the grandson of U.S. Vice President Elbridge Gerry.
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Electrical injury
Electrical injury is a physiological reaction caused by electric current passing through the (human) body.
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Electrocution
Electrocution is death or serious injury caused by electric shock, electric current passing through the body.
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Electrode
An electrode is an electrical conductor used to make contact with a nonmetallic part of a circuit (e.g. a semiconductor, an electrolyte, a vacuum or air).
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Electrotherapy
Electrotherapy is the use of electrical energy as a medical treatment.
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Elihu Thomson
Elihu Thomson (March 29, 1853 – March 13, 1937) was an English-born American engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
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Espionage
Espionage or spying, is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information without the permission of the holder of the information.
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Ex parte Quirin
Ex parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1 (1942), is a case of the United States Supreme Court during World War II that upheld the jurisdiction of a United States military tribunal over the trial of eight German saboteurs in the United States.
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Executioner
A judicial executioner is a person who carries out a death sentence ordered by the state or other legal authority, which was known in feudal terminology as high justice.
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Fact-finding
Fact-finding is the job of a person or group of persons in a judicial or administrative proceeding that has or have the responsibility of determining the facts relevant to decide a controversy.
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Florida
Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.
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Frederick Peterson
Frederick Peterson (March 1, 1859 – July 9, 1938) was an American neurologist and poet.
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George Fell
George Edward Fell (July 10, 1849 – July 29, 1918) was an American surgeon and inventor.
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George Westinghouse
George Westinghouse Jr. (October 6, 1846 – March 12, 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry, gaining his first patent at the age of 19.
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.
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Greensville Correctional Center
Greensville Correctional Center is a prison facility located in unincorporated Greensville County, Virginia, near Jarratt.
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Gregg v. Georgia
Gregg v. Georgia, Proffitt v. Florida, Jurek v. Texas, Woodson v. North Carolina, and Roberts v. Louisiana,, reaffirmed the United States Supreme Court's acceptance of the use of the death penalty in the United States, upholding, in particular, the death sentence imposed on Troy Leon Gregg.
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Ground (electricity)
In electrical engineering, ground or earth is the reference point in an electrical circuit from which voltages are measured, a common return path for electric current, or a direct physical connection to the earth.
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Gruesome Gertie
Gruesome Gertie was the nickname given by death row inmates to the Louisiana electric chair.
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Habeas corpus
Habeas corpus (Medieval Latin meaning literally "that you have the body") is a recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a prison official, to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether the detention is lawful.
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Hanging
Hanging is the suspension of a person by a noose or ligature around the neck.
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Harold P. Brown
Harold Pitney Brown (September 16, 1857, Janesville, Wisconsin – 1944 Volusia, Florida) was an American electrical engineer and inventor known for his activism in the late 1880s against the use of alternating current for electric lighting in New York City and around the country (during the "War of Currents").
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Heart
The heart is a muscular organ in most animals, which pumps blood through the blood vessels of the circulatory system.
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Indiana
Indiana is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a professional association with its corporate office in New York City and its operations center in Piscataway, New Jersey.
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James French (murderer)
James D. French (ca. 1936 – 10 August 1966) was an American criminal who was the last person executed under Oklahoma's death penalty laws prior to Furman v. Georgia, which suspended capital punishment in America from 1972 until 1976.
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John Spenkelink
John Arthur Spenkelink (March 29, 1949 – May 25, 1979) was a convicted American murderer.
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who spied for the Soviet Union and were tried, convicted, and executed by the Federal government of the United States.
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Kentucky
Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.
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Lethal injection
Lethal injection is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person (typically a barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution) for the express purpose of causing immediate death.
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Lizzie Halliday
Lizzie Halliday (– June 28, 1918) was an Irish-American serial killer responsible for the deaths of four people in upstate New York during the 1890s.
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Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber
Louisiana ex rel.
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Lynda Lyon Block
Lynda Cheryle Lyon Block (February 8, 1948 – May 10, 2002) was an American convicted murderer.
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Maggie dela Riva
Maggie dela Riva (born Magdalena T. dela Riva in 1942) in the Philippines, is a Filipina movie actress, who has appeared in about 80 films.
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Maria Barbella
Maria Barbella (Barberi) (born October 24, 1868) was the second woman sentenced to die in the electric chair.
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Martha M. Place
Martha M. Place (September 18, 1849 – March 20, 1899) was an American murderer and the first woman to die in the electric chair.
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Matthew Hale (New York)
Matthew Hale (June 20, 1829 Chelsea, Orange County, Vermont – March 25, 1897 Albany, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
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Mississippi
Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico.
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Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.
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Nebraska
Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States.
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Neurology
Neurology (from νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is a branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the nervous system.
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New York Court of Appeals
The New York Court of Appeals is the highest court in the U.S. state of New York.
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New York Daily News
The New York Daily News, officially titled Daily News, is an American newspaper based in New York City.
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Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma (Uukuhuúwa, Gahnawiyoˀgeh) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.
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Old Smokey
Old Smokey is a euphemistic name given to the state prison electric chair in New Jersey, which is on display at the New Jersey State Police Museum.
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Old Sparky
Old Sparky is the nickname of the electric chairs in Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
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Operation Pastorius
Operation Pastorius was a failed German intelligence plan for sabotage inside the United States during World War II.
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Pedro Medina
Pedro Luis Medina (October 5, 1957 – March 25, 1997) was a Cuban refugee who was executed in Florida for the murder of a 52-year-old woman in Orlando.
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Philippines
The Philippines (Pilipinas or Filipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is a unitary sovereign and archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
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Photojournalism
Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that employs images in order to tell a news story.
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Robert G. Elliott
Robert Greene Elliott (January 27, 1874 – October 10, 1939) was the New York State Electrician (i.e., executioner) – and for those neighboring states that used the electric chair, including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Massachusetts – during the period 1926–1939.
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Roswell P. Flower
Roswell Pettibone Flower (August 7, 1835May 12, 1899) was the 30th Governor of New York from 1892 to 1894.
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Ruth Snyder
Ruth Brown Snyder (March 27, 1895 – January 12, 1928) was an American murderer.
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Sabotage
Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a polity, effort or organization through subversion, obstruction, disruption or destruction.
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Serial killer
A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people,A serial killer is most commonly defined as a person who kills three or more people for psychological gratification; reliable sources over the years agree.
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Sing Sing
Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in the village of Ossining, in the U.S. state of New York.
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South Carolina
South Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
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State electrician
The official title of "state electrician" was given to some American state executioners in states using the electric chair during the early twentieth century.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.
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Tennessee
Tennessee (translit) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.
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Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor.
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Thomson-Houston Electric Company
The Thomson-Houston Electric Company was a manufacturing company which was one of the precursors of the General Electric company.
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Tom Howard (photographer)
Thomas James "Tom" Howard Jr. (September 11, 1894 – 8 October 1961) was an American photographer who worked at the Washington bureau of P. & A. Photographs during the 1920s.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Virginia
Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
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War of the currents
The war of the currents (sometimes called battle of the currents) was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.
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Westinghouse Electric Corporation
The Westinghouse Electric Corporation was an American manufacturing company.
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William Kemmler
William Francis Kemmler (May 9, 1860 – August 6, 1890) of Buffalo, New York, was a convicted murderer and the first person in the world to be legally executed using an electric chair.
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Willie Francis
Willie Francis (January 12, 1929 – May 9, 1947) is best known for surviving a failed execution by electrocution in the United States.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Yellow Mama
Yellow Mama is the nickname given to Alabama's electric chair, which was used for executions from 1927–2002.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_chair