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Why did people use the electric chair?
As technology improved it became seen as a more humane alternative to death by hanging or by firing squad.
Who invented the electric chair?
A man named Harold Pitney Brown invented the electric chair, after writing a book about a boy touching a telegraph wire then dying from the electrical curent. He then later got hired to invent the electric chair to fight in the war of currents. ( Altering Current, and Direct Current )
What were people hanged for?
People were hanged for supposedly being a witch, or not going along with the law. Hanging back then was just like getting put in the electric chair. ouch that would hurt alot and the electric chair haha
Who was last executed in the electric chair in Nebraska?
Robert Williams on December 2, 1997
What methods of capital punishment are still in use today?
Hanging, stoning, firing squad, sword to the neck, electric chair (in America for those who select it over the lethal injection), lethal injection, gas chamber and many more...(They get worse as the list goes on so I were you I would stop reading, you get very disturbing things.)
