Electric Chairs - Photo Gallery

In the 2nd half of the 20th Century hanging was the accepted method of executing those found guilty of committing a capitol crime. The exception was Utah where the condemned were given the choice of the gallows or a firing squad. The convicts overwhelmingly chose the bullet over the rope.

The rope didn't always work out too well---

In 1886 a New York State Legislature Commission was established to study humane methods of capitol punishment. 1888, the New York Legislature passed a law establishing electrocution as the state's method of execution. Realize that the Edison Light Bulb was invented only 9 years earlier. This was definitely new technology.

Alabama's elecrtic chair, "Yellow Mama", seems to be the only yellow U.S. Elecrtic Chair. It was painted with surplus paint from the Highway Dept which had a testing facility adjacent to Kilby Prison in Montgomery. It was used for 153 elecrtocutions between 1927 and 1965.
You can see and read about the elecrtic chairs of our nation.

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