Report on Nebraska's electric chair and its use and procedures

This is a news report about the preparation of the Nebraska electric chair for its first use in many years.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• nebraska
• electric
• chair
• electrocution
• execution
• capital
• punishment

[AmericanPride1234]

you know if you ever need the chair tested let me know. I got a mayor in my town that got caught kissing his underage boyfriend in the city hall restrooms and the state dis nothing. If your not using the chair this weekend could i barrow it?

[XenoHosting]

@CondemnedGirl They don't hear a hum until the current is being passed through their body... When they walk in the chair is off, there is no hum, this is to prevent accidental electrical shock of staff. The hum is the sound of the oscillating alternating current. As for the above comment, voltage has nothing to do with anything, Telsa used to pass tens of thousands of volts through his body to demonstrate the basic principals of electricity. Voltage dose not kill Amperage does.

[zazozung]

@wardenphil So the person in the chair doesn't burst into flames.

[survida100]

@CondemnedGirl that one is good but they dont turn on the current i met someone that worked of florida's death row and he said you dont hear a pop like on this one and he witnessed jesse tafero's execution in 1990 and leo jones in 1998. the officers bothched his execution because the victem was a state trooper

[CondemnedGirl]

@survida100 If you're looking for a video about the Florida chair, search for "execution on the electric chair explained". It's probably the best one at that particular chair.

[survida100]

@CondemnedGirl Where can i find this video im learning about florida's electric chair

[7ABIBIintaalbi]

why dont they show the water... that doesnt make any sense

[survida100]

@MrNWA4Life Can you upload the whole episode on youtube??

[MrNWA4Life]

@nicspic2011

Nebraska's clemency Board is made up of the Governor, Secretary of State, and the Attorney General. Otey had a good lawyer that brought up in appeals that the Attorney General sat on the clemency board, yet his office pushed for his execution, a conflict of interest. The death row row cells were always in the hospital ward (even in the old buildings they were demolished in 1980) until they built the prison in Tecumsah in 2003 and moved death row there.

[MrNWA4Life]

This comes from an episode of CBS News 48 Hours, the episode's titled Death By Midnight, The Final Countdown. Aired in December 1994. I got a copy from CBS News on tape, cost a small fortune, but nice to be able to watch. First use in many years? That's an understatement. It's mentioned here that there hadn't been an execution since 1959, 35 long years! The last execution was Charles Starkweather, executed on my birthday, June 25, 1959!