The electric chair long before it would be formalized...
Item # 601673
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CLEVELAND DAILY HERALD, Ohio, Dec. 18, 1877
* Electrocution as a means of execution ?
Page 3 has an interesting article: "Public Executions - Electricity as a Substitute for the Rope", which is a letter suggesting electricity come be used as a more humane method of execution. Various details are offered by the writer (see).
Eight pages, very nice condition.
* Electrocution as a means of execution ?
Page 3 has an interesting article: "Public Executions - Electricity as a Substitute for the Rope", which is a letter suggesting electricity come be used as a more humane method of execution. Various details are offered by the writer (see).
Eight pages, very nice condition.
Category: Post-Civil War
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$28
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.
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