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29 Oct 2007, 9:44 pm
(These included prolonged death by strangulation on the one hand and decapitation of the condemned prisoner on the other.) (4)In 1889, New York State became the first jurisdiction to introduce electrocution as a more scientific method of execution following concerns around the number of hangings where the prisoner took a prolonged time to die. [read post]