electrocutionn.

1889 Marion (Ohio) Daily Star 12 June Electrocution tested. Facts are multiplying that prove the folly of the new ‘electrocution’ law.

1890 Evening News 6 May 4/1 The Supreme Court of the United States has refused to grant a writ of habeas corpus in the case of the wife murderer under sentence of electrocution.

1891 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 3 June (headline) Date set for electrocutions.

1949 J. Kerouac Jrnl. 23 Oct. in Windblown World (2004) 238 Reading about copkillers and their electrocution in Chicago.

1979 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 30 July Mrs. Bundy..put her face in her hands as a former reporter described details of electrocutions he had witnessed in Texas.

1993 People's Weekly World 6 Feb. 12/2 Jones was an activist in the struggle to free..nine youths framed up and facing electrocution on phony rape charges.

1892 Science 23 Sept. 177/1 I discreetly retired some distance down the slope from that summit surcharged with possible electrocution if I remained.

1900 Manitoba (Winnepeg) Morning Free Press 14 Aug. 5/3 Benefit concert to-night..in favor of Mrs. Clarke, widow of Lineman Wm. Clarke, whose recent death by electrocution proved to be such a loss to all who knew him.

1927 Times 19 Dec. 9/ Cross-examined by Mr. Birkett, he said that death from electrocution was sometimes death from shock, and sometimes from the injuries caused.

1948 National Geographic Mag. Mar. 395/1 A few whiffs of gas or chloroform are sometimes used, but most ranchers prefer electrocution.

1989 W. Taubman & J. Taubman Moscow Spring (1990) 226 His accidental electrocution in 1977 while plugging in a tape recorder in his Paris apartment is still regarded with suspicion.

2005 Time Out N.Y. 20 Jan. 65/4 [Marina] Abramovic has endured electrocution, near asphyxiation, and starvation all in the hopes of disturbing people as the self-described ‘Grandmother of Performance Art’.