Added: 4 years ago
From: lander77477
Views: 81,908
Sort by time | Sort by thread (beta)

Link to this comment:

Share to:
see all

All Comments (241)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • God I wish every inmate was offed in ol'sparky. We could off 2 inmates every hour and still never run out.

  • he could have died by suicide and it would have cost far less than for the state of Tennessee (hope I've spelt that right) to put him to death.

  • Holton sentenced himself to death. He refused to cooperate with the state appointed attorney and even took preventative measures in order to avoid appeal, not to mention he even turned himself in for the killings.

    He studied law while he was in jail and was fully aware that his state had the death penalty. This man had even planned on killing himself after the murders. He WANTED to die, so what is the problem with a man using the state to do what he had intended to do all along?

  • GOOD OLE' SPARKY!!!

  • Fred Leuchter AssociatesLeuchter started Fred Leuchter Associates in which he sold services to several states to help them maintain, improve, document, and ascertain the effectiveness of their equipment for administration of capital punishment.[10] His initial work was with electric chairs, starting in Tennessee

  • at 1:30 even the condemned Americans are getting fatter HAHA!! LOSE SOME WEIGHT USA!! 

  • @CzechDetectingChap Im American, but I agree 100 percent lol.

  • Why only 2 options?

  • Comment removed

  • Wow.., so matter of fact. "...larger than old sparky". Lovely. WTF? You're killing your people and you don't seem to care that they're products of your society. What the hell is wrong with you? I thought you believed that god is love. Where is the Love? I shake my head in disbelief that in the 21st century you find this acceptable. How about working towards creating a society where such damaged individuals either don't exist or help them before they reach this point. Stop killing your people.

  • @TahmohPenikett LOVE your response...it's disgusting that he's proud that the arms & legs came from Ole Sparky....WOW.

  • @UnitedWeSwoopCJ no u know whats disgustiong. killing ur kids and almost killing ur ex wife. u fag

  • @UrbanExploration1909 Repeat 2nd grade English.

  • @UrbanExploration1909 Fuck u cj tryin to be a hard ass on the internet proving you lack confidence in the real world so you go on here to be a big tough guy huh

  • @TahmohPenikett Such a society will never exist due to greed alone.

  • @TahmohPenikett "How about working towards creating a society where such damaged individuals either don't exist or help them before they reach this point." Are you doing anything to make this happen in society?

  • @Bernardatious Because I find the comments in the video offensive, you expect me to list just what I do to work towards a better society? Before we go completely off topic of the video and its dialogue, why don't you share what you believe regarding state sanctioned killing? I owe you no justification when you aren't actually even addressing my point, at all. I can only hope you're as sickened by this video as I am. If not, feel free to tell us why you find this acceptable.

  • @TahmohPenikett ur a fucking idiot look at what this man did to his own family! fuckin idiot

  • @UrbanExploration1909 First off, you're all but impossible to understand. Do some remedial English classes for goodness sake. Secondly, way to avoid the actual points I made. Thirdly, grow up, and then come back with some reasons why you disagree with my opinion. Sheesh.., you're yet another embarrasment to the USA.

  • @Oilisdeathtomany ok mr english teacher trying to be soproper over the internet you want to know why I dont agree with you, well just look at what this guy did. He killed his freakin family. Do you suggest we let him off with a warning or give him probation?! Cause im sure he wouldnt do it again right?? I mean im sure he said sorry!  And you think some thug who shoots up a gass station and kills the clerk working to feed his family should not be killed for what he did. Hell yes he should.

  • @TahmohPenikett  What a load of crap. There will always be sick fucks like Holton and there is no way for a society to prevent such violent defective products. When convicted these sick violent killers need to be exterminated and done with once and for all.

  • @eca234678 You lazy thinker. You're basically saying that hey, there's some sick people in our world (however one defines it, remember) so, let's kill them. Yeah, lovely. How about asking what it is that makes some people behave so perversely? Oh wait. Then you'd have to ask for various governments and their security teams (e.g. CIA, MI5&6) to justify their actions. Get real. How about we kill all the catholic paedophiles et al. Think a little before you knee jerk a response.

  • if there is a god this guy is a saint. think about it.

  • Disturbing. Humans turning organised death into a part of society OS disgusting

  • @MEareCAT Fucking pussy fagot

  • #Fanta Claus is frying! Fanta Claus is dying tonight!!#

  • "He thought they would go to heaven if they ... didn't have time to really commit all the sins that would send them to hell."

    Well, if he wanted to be all religious, the least he could have done is check his theology, since damnation is binary and not on a scale: one sin is all it takes to be doomed.

  • This is the 21st century right?

  • @kittyburger000 "This is the 21st century right?"

    Yes, and people still murder, therefore justice is still carried out.

  • @KidsSave/chekist1917 One that's rejected you because of your "laughable little penis":

    "Your country is no better than my laughable little penis. - KidsSave.chekist1917 from “Death Penalty Documentary: Execution Tour of NC Death Row”.

    Or one that you can't provide for on your PEASANT'S wages:

    "I'm always looking for something affordable on my PEASANT'S WAGES" - chekist1917/KidsSave on soviet-empiredotcom.

    Proof on my channel of both these self-confessed facts.

  • @electroexecutee  Yeah, chekist is a peasant living in Russia and working a farm. What a hapless dope and dupe you are. An utter moron.

  • @KidsSave You got the first sentence correct, but not the rest. Unlucky, peasant! So we have: -tiny penis -peasant's wages -ladyboys -boys from Brazil -lying about playing the drums -offering to fight and then backing out -penis fetish -"bottom twink", whatever that is That enough, Saint Stalin?! I wonder why you always come running to chekist's defence? It wouldn't be that you are the same person, would it, posting exclusively to me and about chekist1917. You made your bed; lay in it.
  • @electroexecutee I come to his defence because I like it, the same way you like lying. You have already visited a site with "twink" in the title so you have been busted again! BUSTED!

  • @KidsSave That's because I Googled "chekist1917" and was originally astonished at the perverted videos you posted on. Now I'm not surprised at all. I have proof of everything on my channel and on here; you're the one lying by definition because you have no proof of anything, except yourself being a pervert.

    Oh, and you're talking to yourself again. Better see the shrink again.

    KidsSave is the account you use to fail to defend yourself, chekist1917. The posting style is IDENTICAL. Pathetic.

  • @electroexecutee When you gonna sue me tough guy? I'm waiting. You can't do jack shit loser. YOU SUCK! BWAAAAA HAAAAAAA!

  • @KidsSave When you carry out your word:

    "I'll be happy to come to Britain chimp. I'll take you on anywhere."

    So when are you arriving, again?

    You're the one who sucks. You suck ladyboys' dicks, chekist1917, being such a connoisseur on that particular perversion of yours, which is a mere one in dozens of others. All on my channel, for all to see.

  • @electroexecutee He already told you as soon as you provide an address. How can you be so utteryl stupid? He also made clear he was disgusted by ladyboys so, again, you repetition is moronic and weird. When's da lawsuit comin' sport? You made a demand. I take your "demand" and shoved it up your fat ass. When you pull it out, let us know, sucker! HA HA HA!

  • @KidsSave What do you mean, "he"? You're surely not still thinking that anyone believes that you're not chekist1917? If you are, then you are proven to be not just stupid beyond all imagination, but schizophrenic. You're TALKING ABOUT YOURSELF IN THE THIRD PERSON. You are MENTAL.

    KIDSSAVE = CHEKIST1917

    Tell you what, You post YOUR address. I've posted enough proof of wanting to fight you; you just make EXCUSE after EXCUSE, coward.

    Get this into your thick skull: YOU WILL NEVER GET MY ADDRESS.

  • @KidsSave I have already TOLD you that it will be done by e-mail:

    "I'll be happy to come to Britain chimp. I'll take you on anywhere." YOUR WORDS. No conditions attached. You said you WILL come to Britain. Now you are trying EVERYTHING YOU CAN THINK OF to CHICKEN OUT OF IT.

    Answer my e-mail. You'll be given a location. The fight will then take place. Do that, or be forever branded the coward that you so obviously are. Not to mention pervert, ladyboy-lover, spanking-obsessed, LOSER.

  • @KidsSave He/you made clear this:

    "Christ, it's so obviously a guy. And the psuedo-dancing stinks." From the video "SEXY TRANSVESTITE IN LITTLE DRESS":

    and

    "You can tell they are guys a mile away", from the video "Lady of Ladyboy", produced by SexyTrannyVideos.

    Proof is on my channel.

    Accept your defeat and just admit it. You're a screwed-up pervert. The proof is solid and FACT, unlike your lies. Read what is on my channel, or are you "utteryl" stupid? Too nervous to type properly? Yep.

  • @KidsSave dont you guys have anything better to do?

  • @1986mvp You've only seen the mere tip of the iceberg. KidsSave likes to troll under the name of chekist1917 as well. And yes, he has PLENTY of better things to do. See my channel for details, and click the link there as well.

    The only thing I want to do is kick his fucking head into orbit so that none of us have to suffer his vile perversity. But, despite agreeing to come and "spank me in person" (he can't complete one sentence without being a pervert), he's backed out. Piece of chicken shit.

  • @KidsSave Hey, "utteryl stupid" one, I've just annihilated you again on my channel. Take a look. I'll beat the shit out of you when you fulfil this promise:

    "I'll be happy to come to Britain chimp. I'll take you on anywhere." - chekist1917/KidsSave from the video "an execution on the electric chair".

    and that was ONE MONTH ago. My shoulder is healing. You say I'm crippled. Then what the fuck are you waiting for? As soon as I've beaten you beyond recognition, THEN I'll sue you. Understand?

  • @KidsSave

    ur gay, and a fag, go suck ur mums dick

  • Redneck idiots.

  • @electroexecute, just make her sign a prenup. Say, 'bitch, you didn't bring anything into this so you're not taking anything out, should you decide to walk.'

  • @Joseph565112 Yeah, that's what Paul McCartney should have done.

  • I'd opt for hanging 

  • @Wbeliever7 Short-drop, sherrif-drop, British Army table-drop, or suspension hanging? Or a deliberately too-long rope hanging, for instant decapitation?

    Believe it or not, hanging with no drop can make you pass out with no pain if the carotid artery is occluded. This is how people have ended up dying using autoerotic asphyxiation whilst indulging in sexual acts, usually using a scarf (Michael Hutchence), and some hangees have managed to hang themselves from a door handle.

  • @electroexecutee I dunno, the one that breaks your neck

  • @Wbeliever7 That's the thing. They used a drop-distance table based on your body mass in the UK and later on in the USA. It largely worked, but sometimes it went wrong and the neck didn't break, resulting in a slow, very painful strangulation. That's the exact reason the introduced the electric chair - people were horrified at the number of botched hangings.

  • @electroexecutee instant decapitation then, quick and effective

  • @Wbeliever7 I'd agree, and the guillotine is pretty much the same in effect, but in the USA they don't like any blood being present at executions, which is why the guillotine was thrown out as a possible method.

  • @electroexecutee I think the whole no blood thing is stupid. They give themselves this false illusion that what they are doing is not gruesome because it is not bloody. A botched execution by electric chair or by lethal injection is far more disgusting, excruciating and gruesome than having to look at brain matter. If you are going to kill someone it is going to be gross no matter how you do it. Just do it as quickly and painlessly as possible I say then clean up your mess.

  • @Wbeliever7 I totally agree. The method that would be truly instantaneous would be to have the executee laying flat on the floor and drop an absolutely massive flat weight on him from a huge height. He would be squashed to molecules in almost zero time. Or there could be a vertical version where the executee is placed between two giant pistons which are propelled towards the executee at huge velocity. Again, messy but instant. Was it The Fly where Vincent Price put his head in a paper press?

  • Given how nutty he was, the ex-wife probably had good reasons for not wanting him to see the kids.

  • I thought he went nutty BECAUSE his ex-wife ran off with another man, lived in squalor, and denied his right to see his kids. Of course I could be wrong, but it's what I've read.

  • Sounds like the reasoning John List has,to kill your family so they will go to heaven.List should have gotten the death penalty,also.

  • Burn in hell childkiller,I hope he`s satans bitch.

  • IF I WENT TO THE ELECTRIC CHAIR I WOULD SAY "your gonna have to turn the voltes down a few nothches"...just down a few more"..."another few notches...."that great".."oh wait,could you turn it down a bit more just a few nothches"....!"thats it"..".just turn it down once more!"

    then id be "!right that fine,i felt a jolt there ,just fine for me thanks"

  • i wonder why he opted for the electric chair? does anyone know?

  • First of all he was never mentally very healthy, 2nd from what I understand its because he wanted to make his execution as difficult for the state to do, or at least put them to as much trouble as possible, or possibly for a lot of attention

  • @heston99 He was originally sentenced to the chair before the state switched to lethal injection, so he believed he should serve his sentence.

    His wife left him for a total scumbag and denied him access to his kids. Like Lander says, he was a war vet and maybe had mental issues from that, but what his wife did wasn't entirely godly.

    This will happen again if the courts don't stop women denying access to the man's kids, but they will not jail the woman even when she ignores the courts.

  • id never go to the electric chair!! id be like..."sorry,im afraid ive got a prior engagement"...id be out of there in a shot!

  • you know loads about electric chairs! your ammount of knowledge is shocking!!..is your information current?!...

  • Very funny!

    I'm a physicist with medical instrumentation qualification, so the two kind of go together, sort of. And, of course, all physicists are mad.

  • how very interesting,so do you have anything to do with the electric chair through your work./?...DO YOU HAVE .HOW COULD I PUT IT,ANY ELECRTRIC CAHIR OBJECT DA-RTS AROUND YOUR HOUSSE ..IM TELLING YOU,ID NEVER LET ANYONE PUT ME INONE OF THOSE ELECTRIC CHAIRS COS ID BE OUT OF THERE SO FAST!!!!

  • I made a working electric chair once, out of half a soccer ball, some aluminium foil, old belts, a cheese grater, a microwave transformer, and, of course, a chair.

    All I'd need is to recruit a strapdown team and you'd be in it my friend!

    Except my father put it on a bonfire, since I transported it to his house on the roof rack of my car and put it in his garage. I got some funny looks on the road I can tell you.

    He said, "Don't you go bringing that pesky electric chair to my house!"

  • @electroexecutee lol! what are you like!....im not sitting in your electic!!!..im more worried about the strapdown crew!!! lol!

  • @electroexecutee what would happen if the prison put up a fight and overpowered the guards?

  • There are 8 pretty big guards, and they practise every possibility with volunteers over and over again prior to the execution. They are armed with batons and probably pepper spray. The executee is also shackled by his hands and feet.

    I have never heard of a case where the executee resisted. They almost always are resigned to their fate and/or find God during their many years on death row.

    If the warden suspected an executee may get violent, he'd just get 16 guards to do the job.

  • @electroexecutee i wouldnt sit in the electric chair as a volunteer especially knowing people had died in it.....that would bet too freaky for my taste....

    i dont think i could take someone to the chair,it would bother me too much,i would get the "rescuer syndrome" and try to save the person

  • One Ohio inmate designed the restraining system of their chair by using clamps instead of straps. He was released, but several years later committed murder and was executed in the same chair.

  • @heston99 its set at 1750 voltes...whats that equivelant off,what could you power with that ammount of voltes,any comparrisons

  • Not many, since appliances use 110V or 230V, depending on the country. However, a microwave transformer steps up the voltage by a factor of around 10, so in England at least you have 2300V coming out of the transformer.

    P=VI so current plays an equal role in the overall power delivered to an appliance. Most lightning strike victims survive, despite the millions of volts, because the current (with respect to time) is pretty small considering that P=E/T, therefore E/T=VI, hence E=TVI...

  • therefore total energy is linearly proportional to time, and a lightning bolt is too quick to deliver inevitable fatal electric energy.

    The path of the current is, however, quite similar to that of the electric chair, since it tends to enter the head and leave through the feet (or lower leg in the case of the chair).

  • @heston99 In his own words, He said the he would feels the crimes that he committed to his family, that he feels that the electric chair is what he deserved and would not change if given the opportunity.

  • @joeymcnew37209 blimey! id never agree to electric chair

  • @heston99 He was executed by the Electric Chair in Nashville, TN at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution. I can't nor will discuss any details of this incident.

  • @joeymcnew37209 You don't need to. Just Google "Daryl Holton's electric chair execution should be the state's last By DAVID RAYBIN", and you'll get a PDF with all the details from his lawyer, from the extraction from the cell , the restraints, the walk to the chair, the strapping in, to the actual execution details. The witnesses don't see all this, but his lawyer is allowed to be with him all the way to make sure his rights aren't violated.

  • Ha Ha Ha, I didn't read it fully and it talked about it at 1:15.

  • I live in Tennessee. And they use to call the electric chair and still do call it Sparky. It gots it name because it use to catch ther person's hair on fire before it killed them.

  • It was Old Sparky, and since heads are shaved, there's not much chance of setting hair on fire. It's just a general term used because it's electric.

  • Yea I knew they shaved their heads. Buts thats why the called him that because the thought that if then didn't it would. Why did they make a new one? Did Sparky stop working? Also Tennessee dosen't use it anymore.

  • There was a guy called Fred Leuchter that touted for business making execution equipment. He had a good reputation until he denied the holocaust.

    Tennessee gave him a contract to make a new electrocution system; I think the previous one was just old and the chair was too small. They were probably worried about a possible botch more than anything.

    The instruction manual for the 'new' chair is on the internet in several places. Google Fred Leuchter and you'll find it.

  • What a trigger-happy state Texas is. 24/39 executions. That takes glee.

  • The strange thing is that out of the hundreds of Texan electric chair executees, there is not one recorded case of a botched execution. Yet other states who used the chair much less have quite a few bungled electrocutions.

    Also, since lethal injection began, the number of bungled lethal injectees seems to have already outnumbered the number of bungled electrocutees.

  • Incorrect. Texas did have a botch in 1938, similar to what happened to Willie Francis in Louisiana in the middle of the following decade. The inmate was given a brief stay and executed, I believe the next day. Can't remember the inmate's name, it is referenced in passing in a book about the Willie Francis case "Death By Installments: The Ordeal of Willie Francis" by Arthus S. Miller.

  • Let me know if you find out the executee. I read about a bible spinning from the lap of one executee when they threw the switch, but can't find anything else.

    Some states are quite secretive regarding their electrocutions; records may have been destroyed.

  • @electroexecutee - The fourth individual executed by Virginia in the post-Furman era, Michael Marnell Smith (1986) wanted to have a Bible placed in his lap as he was electrocuted. Concern about the possibility of flames resulted in a compromise of the Bible being placed at his feet, turned to his favorite verse.

    Smith came from an evangelical family. He was convicted of the brutal rape and murder of divorcee Audrey Weiler, whom he accosted alongside a road as she sunbathed in 1977.

  • @nicspic Many thanks for the info.

  • @nicspic I was referring to Joseph Johnson - electric chair, Texas, July 30th, 1964, 12:08am regarding the bible spinning. Apparently it landed near the witness area.

  • They were only seperated by a simple metal railing at that time at the Walls in Huntsville.

  • @nicspic Well I've narrowed it down to 17 Texas executees in 1938!

  • Comment removed

  • Comment removed

  • @nicspic Thanks a lot for the info. I have no idea why your comment has been marked as spam; I will try to "unspam" it!

  • In the USA people are burnt alive...This is so terrible and gory.... In Europe we abolished death penalty decades ago.

  • dayrl holtan is "scheduled" to die tuesday lol sounds crazy

  • It does indeed, considering his name was Daryl Holton.

  • Holton, chose the electric chair because he hated himself & hated what he had done. He could have chosen lethal injection.And he was a respectable man once. This is a tragedy anyway you look @ it. Of course considering the magnitude of what he did, the State had no choice but to execute Holton.This could have been prevented with a more equitable Family Court settlement,not that that is an excuse.

  • Indeed, his wife must take some responsibility for this - not for Holton killing the kids - but for the situation that arose. She ran off with another man, living in squalor, and blocked him access.

    Unless something is done about women blocking access to the ex-husband's children, this WILL happen again.

  • electroexecutee, I don't know how our family courts got so wrong,but they cause a horrifying amount of damage to our country & especially any children involved.They seem calibrated to benefit only selfish women & Lawyers.

  • And people wonder why I don't want to get married. Might as well just find a woman who hates me and give her my house.

  • @electroexecutee Faith. There are great people out there.This is extreme.

  • @amberito40 Well I would like you to check out a person called "chyrd". He abused electro despite electro being courteous to him. When electro defended himself, he reported electro to YouTube, who have now banned electro. He had it planned all along.

    With scum such as that out there, my faith is hardly restored, but many thanks for the kind and polite post. It is appreciated. electroexecutee always returns courtesy, and if he gets unbanned he would be delighted to offer you friendship.

  • @amberito40 Thank you for your kind words. My girlfriend posted from her account (minkloaders) as I was banned due to chyrd making perverted remarks about my mother, who is not here to defend herself, and chyrd deliberately did it to get me banned. He is such a coward that he daren't use e-mail to make comments about me. He can only do it whilst YouTube are there to protect him, hold his hand and wipe his arse. I pity such cowards. I don't know if it has something to do with his adoption or not.

  • @electroexecutee What a load of crap. You were busted as minkloaders you lying bastard.

  • @KidsSave OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Getting mad at the truth are we? The only reason I posted from my girlfriend's account was because chyrd got me banned. Did it have any effect? Not one bit.

    And none of it is a lie, either. Solid proof of your self-admitted peasantry is on my channel. You tried to spam it, but it didn't work, did it? HAHAHAHAH!

  • @electroexecutee You didn't post from your girlfriend's account. As we all know plastic fuck dolls can't type in the first place! Busted AGAIN! Stupid!

  • @KidsSave Yes I did, and you can't prove otherwise. Look below. YOU have been "busted", and EVERY TIME I bust you I have solid proof. You have NOTHING.

  • @electroexecutee You have no proof, just crap you make up. Child pervert. SUE ME TOUGH GUY!

  • @KidsSave The PROOF is on my channel. Can't you read? You should have gone to Specsavers. It doesn't matter how many times you try to get out of it, THE PROOF IS ON MY CHANNEL, WITH LINKS TO YOUR LADYBOY POSTS.

    Which part of that sentence don't you understand?

    Answer the drum question, since you claim to have been a drummer.

    Arrange the fight AS YOU ORIGINALLY PROMISED.

    What does the term you like to use, "BOTTOM TWINK" mean?

    All these questions, and more, you avoid due to your LYING.

  • @electroexecutee - I can't understand why anyone would want to get married this day and time. Peace.

  • @Lingerfoot And peace there would be more of if people didn't get married. What's wrong with just living with a partner, as I do? The only difference would be her changing her name. Pointless.

    Regards

    EE

  • How can anyone call the electric chair cruel? This chair has proved that somewhere in the first 20 seconds you lose conciousness as the power is cut after that and if you were still feeling pain you would then cry out.

  • stupid child killer

  • that man was insane. how can u execute a mentally retarded person?

  • they dont care for killing mentally retatarded .some years ago they have still even killed young people.

  • One US executee turned up to his trial with a domino attached to his head, and declared that he would rule the world as a giant flying tortoise.

    He got the chair.

    Another US executee left the pudding in his final meal so he could finish it after his execution.

    He got the chair, and it was bungled.

    Holton was driven to insanity by his wife leaving him for another man and denying him access to the kids, so she wasn't entirely innocent of wrongdoing either.

  • Think the first cases you were referring to were that of Varnall Weeks electrocuted in Alabama in 1995, the second that of Ricky Ray Rector put to death by lethal Injection not electrocution by the state of Arkansas in 1992

  • Definitely the first one; I thought the second was Horace Dunkins, but I could well be wrong.

    There was a documentary I saw where one executee genuinely thought that he would have some electricity through his head and then go home. I can't remember who it was; it may have been either of these three.

  • If you can find out the name of the docu then pls let me know

  • Oh it was years ago, but I seem to remember Clive Stafford-Smith might was in it. Probably Panorama or similar.

  • i wouldnt want clive stafford smith defending me..he is a stupid burke!

  • He's not the sharpest is he? He just seems to spend more time moping about executions rather than trying to get his clients off death row.

    Perhaps he just likes executions and is using his 'lawyer' status to get to be a witness.

  • yeah i know,he didnt defent edward earl johnston very well and one client he defended who was proven to have brutaly murdered,he was whinging on about his rights...and i thought what a twat..that guy deserved to be electrocuted

  • thats a awful big electric chair in that video...what would they do if someone was too fat too fit in the electric chair?

    i remember when i was in disneyland a big fat man was trying t o get into the rockets ,but he was too fat to get in ..the poor bloke manning the ride tried all sorts to wedge him in,but he just couldnt do it...so he had to give up....so would it be the same for the electric chair?

  • Tennessee's original electric chair was re-made by Fred Leuchter for that very reason - prisoners have become bigger as their meals get better. The original one was pretty small - like it was designed for a youth (and probably used on youths too) - so this new one has a seatbelt-style harness with quick-release mechanism.

    Fred also painted it with epoxy resin-based paint, "similar to that used on the space shuttle" he says, for some reason. Then it got used. Once.

  • I've seen the original Tennessee chair. It was very narrow - much smaller inmates in the time it was constructed. The warden misspeaks in this interview, the only component from the originial chair in the replacement are the back legs. The arms, along with everything else, was new.

  • There's also a picture of the Massachusetts chair on the web without any arms and missing the centre of the seat.

    Fred Leuchter reckons that a photograph he took of the original Tennessee chair has auras and orbs around the electrode areas.

    The Tennessee chair is supposed to be on display, so unless it's a replica, he couldn't have used much of it anyway for the new one.

  • I've been to see the original Tennessee chair - now situated at the National Museum of Crime and Punishment in Washington, DC. It had all legs intact, I couldn't tell whether they had been added as an afterthought following the donation to the framework of the new chair.

    Massachusetts' chair was partly destroyed at a riot at Walpole State Prison in in the mid 1960's, hence the damage you saw. That was the chair Leuchter was first contacted to come and repair.

  • That would explain why the Massachusetts' chair was the first to get a drip pan and the holes drilled through the seat.

    The 'new' Tennessee chair seems to have had its backrest changed. Did Fred forget to include the slots to strap the executee's head to the chair? It started off with a black padded backrest with no slots and then two slots appeared.

    I wonder if they got Fred to do this adjustment or was he 'out of commission' by then?

  • I wasn't aware that Massachusetts' chair ever actually received renovation by Leuchter. Rather, he was "consulted" about it, but I never read about a job being finished. Fred has embellished before on his contract experience. Tennessee represents the first chair that he was involved in the redesign. He tried to get business in Alabama, Virginia and Florida to no avail. I think he rebuilt the helmet for South Carolina.

  • Maybe he didn't do any work on it, but he talks of "all" his electric chairs having drip pans and adjustable arms and backrest. Perhaps Massachusetts' chair always had a drip pan, but I can't see any adjustment in Tennessee's arms or backrest.

    The various copies of NY's chairs had adjustable arms and backrests to the point of reclining, but I never saw the point, or any of them adjusted.

    SC's chair now has a Floridian-style double-stick headrest, replacing the padded one from before.

  • South Carolina's chair has not been changed structurally from when it was first constructed in 1912.

  • The headrest has definitely been changed. It may have been only removing some cloth from between the sticks and the rivets that stuck it on, but it has changed.

    I can send you before and after pictures if you like; just send me a message. I have the new headrest from 2 different angles, and is hard to find on the internet.

  • I think that the original Tennessee chair was delivered to Leuchter's house, and although he says he used it to make the new one, the fact that the 'original' one is on display raises questions.

    I can't see how he could have used much of the original chair as he wanted to timber to match. Who the hell cares if an electric chair has mismatching arms and legs, and has epoxy resin-based varnish similar to that of the Space Shuttle mission?

    What do you think about the 'orbs' on that photo?

  • 1700 volts? That's not enough. To kill properly you need to up the voltage big time. 66,000 should do it the same as you find in a sub station. Watch the you tube video of the kid who goes in to fetch his frisbee and touches the generator and fries in less than a second. That's the way to do it.

  • i think you would of been in pieces if that much lol

  • For what death by electrocution was intended to be, that's the way it should be but the problem is, high voltage is not compatible with the head and leg electrode system that has been in use since the chair was first built. Theoretically, the sponge is supposed to help send the current straight to the heart from the head but the scalp has little water and the skull is quite resilient. That's why botched electrocutions are easier to happen because the system is not the best.

  • Turn up the amps

  • There is one way to find out if the chair hurts and that is for a willing volunteer to stand next to the chair when the execution takes place and touch the chair or the person sat in it. By the way why do they use AC when we know that DC is far more deadly. After all if you touch the third rail on a metro line you are GONE in a flash.

  • Actually, AC is more deadly than DC because AC causes the heart to fibrillate, whereas DC is actually used medically to re-start it (defibrillator).

    The electrified railways use huge voltages that would burn electric chair executees to a crisp immediately; whilst it would likely cause instant death, mutilation of the body is not acceptable, apparently.

    Touching the chair during an execution would be harmless; no current passes through the chair itself.

  • One of my pet dogs was killed by touching the live rail on a railway and he actually let out a scream as his paw touched it. The current HAS to be delivered through the skull.

  • Actually, this is a commonly error. A defibrillator is only used to treat arrhythmias (VT/VF). An asystole (flat-line) output would be unchanged by a defibrillator. Sorry to be a know-all. You were right about the other stuff though. AC is by far the more dangerous. Your Mr Edison did try and warn us!

  • @doctordrew66 I was referring to open heart surgery, where the heart is deliberately fibrillated by AC so the surgeon can work; the heart is then re-started by a DC shock, administered by two electrodes in both cases. This causes the heart to resume normal activity after a second or two. I know because I've seen one being performed.

    Physics is the easiest science of the lot, because it's an exact science and one doesn't have to deal with awkward patients; medicine is an inexact science.

  • @doctordrew66 Mr Edison did try to warn us, but for the wrong reasons. Well, that's what all the animals he electrocuted would have thought!

    He also didn't invent the incandescent light bulb, which is another common fallacy. It was invented independently in another country some time before he did it.

  • @electroexecutee Strictly speaking, the first incandescent light was made by Humphrey Davy in 1809. This was however, merely a strip of charcoal connected between cathode and anode. Hardly convenient!

    The first real light bulb was made by a scotsman, James Lindsay in 1835. A full 44 years before Edison. Making one and showing it to your mates is not really good enough though eh?

    I really need to get out more! hehe

  • @doctordrew66 Yes, it's the Scotsman I was referring to. Maybe he was too tight to let anyone have any of his light?

  • I did of course mean a common error. Physics is so much easier than English don't you think. :)

  • Insane or not insane, that doesn't excuse him murdering his children! He deserved the death penalty.

    Rest in peace, Stephen Edward, Brent, Eric and Kayla Marie.

  • Why don't we behead them? You know....Saudi Arabian style.

  • I am wondering why we dont use a little contraption called the "iron maiden". it worked great in the medieval times, if not the iron maiden, then at least let em burn on a stake like the medieval times for "witches and heretics".

  • That's a myth. The Iron Maiden was actually not a medieval device. It was developed in the early nineteenth century I believe.

  • u can see the lethal injection stretcher in the back from like 1:18-1:30

  • Im afraid im born in 1997!

  • Its about when the crime was committed, not when you were born.

  • i am not afraid i was born in 1995

  • a deluxe chair

  • ...he's insane...

    First of all...he killed his KIDS!!!!

    Second...he CHOSE the Electric Chair over lethal injection...why would a person DO that?!

    ...

    LucyXX

  • Well I actually sat in that exact chair back in September of last year. The prison officials stated that the electric chair is easier than the injection because it's more humane. They stated that it would be better to walk in on your own two legs than to be strapped down and rolled into the area of injections. They stated that alot of inmates would prefer the death chamber and that they like how the general public makes it out to be a harsher death penalty.

  • Yeah, I actually did a bit of research after my comment. I looked up 'botched executions' (this is not for pure pleasure, it's actually an assignment for english class) and most of the ones that went wrong were done with Lethal injection. So, in that case, I'm starting to think this is one of the most humane ways to do the deed.

    LucyXX

  • Lucy, I just read about your English class. You may wish to consider how to use the ellipsis correctly; it could make the difference between a good grade and a poor one.

    Many are guilty of ellipsis abuse without realising it.

  • whats the IN HIS OWN WORDS bit all about?

  • lol u can choose now?? they should all die they way in which they killed id say, so if u btk, then u better be btk'ed lol

  • I agree with the previous comment. Actually, I don't even think that they need a full firing squad. Just have the shitbag kneel in front of his own grave while a guard (or family member of the victim) puts a .45 in the back of his head.

  • I am not against the death penalty but I believe that the electric chair is disgusting. I wish they would bring back the firing squad...much cleaner, thats how I would like to go if it ever came to it

  • Hows it disgusting? The whole execution takes less than a minute. Much better than LI which can take up to an hour.