Taking a lethal seat
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Decapitation, stoning, hanging... Human justice has invented many ways to enforce capital punishment. In the United States, electrocution was for a long time the most common finish line for death row inmates. It is difficult to escape unharmed. But that’s exactly what happened to Willie Francis in May of 1946...
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