Death chair
Published June 30th, 2008 in UncategorizedThe death chair is a term for a seating device used in the executions of criminals who have been condemned to the death penalty. A death chair is utilized in the following methods of execution:
- Electrocution, where an electric chair restrains the inmate while an electrical current passes through his or her body.
- Gas chamber, which has a chair located inside the airtight chamber, to restrain the prisoner while he or she is asphyxiated with lethal gas.
- Firing squad, which has a chair which both keeps the inmate still while he or she is shot with rifles by the executioners, and also collects the bodily fluids that spill out of the inmate’s body following the execution.
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