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Electrocution   /ɪlˌɛktrəkjˈuʃən/   Listen
Electrocution

noun
1.
Execution by electricity.  Synonym: burning.
2.
Killing by electric shock.





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"Electrocution" Quotes from Famous Books



... "that's just an awfully good scheme. But if you work your argument backward it will prove that as evil exists there isn't any good God. But if it's true that sin and disease have no real existence, we'll do away with hanging and electrocution, as they call it, and just send for Miss Bowyer to convince a murderer that murder is an evil, and so it can't have any real independent existence in a universe ...
— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston
... remember, came the terrible series of strikes in 1921 and 1922, and the massacres at Hopedale and Boulder, at Los Angeles and Pittsburg, and, worst of all, Gary. That finished what few rights were left, that killing did. And then came the army of spies, and the proscriptions, and the electrocution of those hundred and eleven editors, speakers and organizers—why bring up all these things that we all know so well? We were willing to play the game fair and square, and they refused. Say that, and ...
— The Air Trust • George Allan England
... sons of the prophet had utilised it with no intention of disrespect. The uplifted right knee of the figure on the cross was insulated and wired. War, the moderniser and mocker of Christ, seemed to have devised new pain for the Teacher of Peace. The crucifixion had become the electrocution. ...
— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons


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