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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.
In Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway the number of electric deaths per million inhabitants was 0.6, 0.3, 0.3 and 0.2, respectively, in the years 2007–2011. [41] In Nigeria, analysis of Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission data found 126 recorded electrocution deaths and 68 serious injuries in 2020 and the first half of 2021. [42]
From 1924 to 1929, 56 people were executed by electrocution, the first 5 people executed by this method took place on February 8, 1924 (this remains a state record for the number of executions in a single day). [2]
Accidental deaths by electrocution (1 C, 52 P) E. People executed by electric chair (26 C, 2 P) L. Deaths from lightning strikes (51 P) S. Suicides by electrocution (4 P)
The word is derived from "electro" and "execution", but it is also used for accidental death. [1] [2] The term "electrocution" was coined in 1889 in the US just before the first use of the electric chair and originally referred to only electrical execution and not other electrical deaths. However, since no English word was available for non ...
During this period 122 people were executed by electrocution at the Huntsville Unit in Texas. [1] [2] Executions 1930–1939 ... Death Row 1923-1973. Texas Department ...
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Toni Jo Henry (née Annie Beatrice McQuiston; [1] January 3, 1916 – November 28, 1942) was the only woman ever to be executed in Louisiana's electric chair. [2] Married to Claude 'Cowboy' Henry, she decided to break her husband out of jail where he was serving a fifty-year sentence in the Texas State Penitentiary for murder.