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Every year, some 1,300 people in the U.S. die by accidental electrocution. But electricity in quantity is not nearly so deadly as most people suppose. Two-thirds of those electrified by potentially lethal currents survive the shock. In fact, the stronger the shock, the better the chance of survival...
These are some of the findings reported in the current Electronics by a Westinghouse engineer, H. A. Poehler. Twenty-five states have adopted electrocution as the most efficient method of capital punishment. But the electric chair stacks all the cards against its occupant. It uses moderate voltage (about 2,000...
Judge William J. Campbell set January 22 for the electrocution of the men, who like their wives, he said, "deliberately and in secret, under the cloak of American citizenship, as agents and helpers of the saboteur, schemed and connived to destroy their neighbors and this nation."
Lights in the jail dimmed, as they always do when an electrocution is about to begin. But no official announcement came (see p. 65).
In the State penitentiary at Richmond, Va., young Odell Waller awaited death this week by electrocution. A Negro sharecropper, guilty of murdering a white man, Waller would have died long since if his case had not become a cause célèbre.