Capital-punishment-in-the-u-s Quote by William Donaldson

In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived…

— Uwe Boll

“But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann. [G. W. Richmann died…

— Joseph Priestley

“Flabby, bald, lobotomized, he drifted in a sheepish calm, where no agonizing reappraisal jarred his concentration on the electric chair- hanging like an oasis…

— Robert Lowell

“A bead of cold sweat dangled on my fingertip before dripping onto the doorbell. What if I got electrocuted from my wet fingers? I…

— Lindsey Leavitt

At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed two live…

— Chris Burden

“With a firm step, he walked down the hall and turned the white china knob of his door, the porcelain smooth and cool beneath…

— Diana Gabaldon

“He was dead. I was fixated on the horrid bite wound on my left forearm. For a long time I watched, hypnotized, as the…

— Bobby Adair

He whipped the chair around and actually split one of the things in half with the impact, spilling the spray of blood that was…

— David Wong

“I got kicked out of my first home for poking a wire hanger into an electrical outlet. My foster mom caught me, shrieked, and…

— Marie Rutkoski

“The day Spenkelink was put to death a popular Jacksonville disc jockey aired a recording of sizzling bacon and dedicated it to the doomed…

— Stephen G. Michaud

“Kenneth was a sitting duck. In fewer than three years he would kneel alone in this very room, on the exact spot where he…

— Jincy Willett

“The evening was a string of miserable minutes strung together in tiny clusters. Three minutes for a man shot through the shoulder; Ellis put…

— Edison McDaniels