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During this period 76 people were executed by electrocution at the Huntsville Unit in Texas. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Three electrocutions took place on September 5, 1951; though no intervening law to prohibit multiple executions on a single day was passed, since this date Texas has not executed more than two people in a single day.
If death results from an electric shock the cause of death is generally referred to as electrocution. Electric injury occurs upon contact of a body part with electricity that causes a sufficient current to pass through the person's tissues. Contact with energized wiring or devices is the most common cause.
The New York Times described the murder: . William Kemmler was a vegetable peddler in the slums of Buffalo, New York. An alcoholic, on March 29, 1889, he was recovering from a drinking binge the night before when he became enraged with his girlfriend [elsewhere referred to as his common-law wife] Tillie Ziegler.
Electrocution is death or severe injury caused by electric shock from electric current passing through the body. The word is derived from "electro" and "execution", but it is also used for accidental death.
Willie Francis (January 12, 1929 – May 9, 1947) was an American teenager known for surviving a failed execution by electrocution in the United States. [2] He was a convicted juvenile sentenced to death at age 16 by the state of Louisiana in 1945 for the murder of Andrew Thomas, a pharmacy owner in St. Martinville who had once employed him.
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Sources: List of electrocuted offenders by the TDJC, [2] and The Espy File: ... Death Row 1923-1973.
If death occurs it is typically from either an abnormal heart rhythm or respiratory failure. [1] Lightning injuries are divided into direct strikes, side splash, contact injury, and ground current. [1] Ground current occurs when the lightning strikes nearby and travels to the person through the ground. [1]
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