Get Death By Electric Chair Gif. Electric chairs have been used since 1890 but now, after plenty of botched procedures and horror stories, the lethal injection is considered to be a more a fellow death row inmate appealed against the electric chair as cruel and unusual punishment and so the lethal injection came to the forefront. Their arms are bound to the chair, and their legs are wrapped in sponges and shackled.
The first time the state tried to execute the inmate by lethal injection.
The death row inmate has previously argued both the electric chair and lethal injection infringe upon his eighth amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment. Image caption the electric chair has gradually been replaced as the main method of execution. Many prisoners died slowly by strangulation and even occasionally, if the drop was too long, by decapitation. An inmate in the us state of tennessee has been executed by electric chair after arguing that a lethal injection would involve suffering.