Electric Chair (Noun)
Meaning
An instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person; "the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair".
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The prison's electric chair had been retired for several years, but it remained a haunting symbol of capital punishment.
- After years of appeals, Jackson was finally led to the electric chair and executed for his crimes.
- The state legislature voted to abolish the electric chair in favor of lethal injection as the primary method of execution.
- The museum exhibit featured a replica of the electric chair used in the infamous 1920s murder trial.
- As the clock struck midnight, the condemned man was strapped into the electric chair and the execution was carried out.