How the Electric Chair Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The electric chair is an all-American invention. It spread almost nowhere else in the world as a capital punishment but worked overtime in the States. Despite the terrible sights and sounds an electrocution produces, it was created out of humaneness.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.3	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
0:41.3	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.9	I'm Josh Clark.
0:43.9	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryan over there and there's Jerry over there and this is Stuff You Should Know Over Here.
0:49.8	I guess I probably signed a little too chipper for what we're about to talk about because it is
0:54.2	grim stuff.
0:57.0	It is and I, my friend, have a fact that you probably know.
1:02.2	But I don't know if everyone else knows that the word electrocute is a portmanteau
1:08.4	that was coined during the War of Currents.
1:10.5	You did, I'm so happy with you.
1:12.4	This is my fact too.
1:13.6	I was like, Chuck's gonna love this.
1:15.2	I appreciate you assuming that I already knew it.
1:17.8	Well, I assume you know everything.
1:20.3	Let him have it, Chuck.
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