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A History of the Electric Chair

NPR

By Scott Simon

Published November 9, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

The electric chair is on its way out as an instrument of death in the United States. Nebraska is the last state to offer no alternative method of execution. A book by Richard Moran chronicles the history of the electric chair. Moran speaks with NPR's Scott Simon.

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