death-chair

The guilty man or woman was placed in a specially constructed death-chair, and, under the supervision of competent physicians, was destroyed by a current of electricity.

Chapter 17: The Scarlet Livery 2010

Next, Will, the resident Dungeons and Dragons-loving geek, confronts Freddy with his dream magic, throwing Magic Missiles and other spells at him and destroying the evil-looking death-chair that Freddy wants to put him in, but Freddy shrugs off the attacks and guts him.

Offline until tonight yendi 2006

That machine has about as much of the human element as a meat-chopper, as a steam - roller, as the death-chair at Sing Sing.

Fighting in Flanders 1918

And to-day, if I should sit with him upon the death-chair, he would consume me as utterly as though I were the foulest-mouthed blasphemer in all

The Doomsman Van Tassel Sutphen 1903

In every state-prison stood the "death-chair," the visible embodiment of the moral force which the wrong-doer had defied, and which, in the ensuing struggle, had proved too strong for him.

The Doomsman Van Tassel Sutphen 1903

Who can put herself in the place of that despairing, hunted creature who knew that blood was on the hands with which she ate, and whose eyes were filled with visions of the death-chair?

The Hollow of Her Hand George Barr McCutcheon 1897

The guilty man or woman was placed in a specially constructed death-chair, and, under the supervision of competent physicians, was destroyed by a current of electricity.

The Iron Heel Jack London 1896

I've come to see -- I've _had_ to --- that the death-chair would have been better, with self-respect, than freedom to go and come, with the necessity to gag every one, every minute of the day, and every day in the year, and all the time, with lies.

The Wild Olive Basil King 1893

Had he stayed where he was he could have shouted it out till they gagged him in the death-chair.

The Wild Olive Basil King 1893

"Cadde la stanca mana" are there, and there is the death-chair facing the window, from which he gasped for "more light" at last.

Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878