The death chamber is seen at the federal penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas September 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Jenevieve Robbins/Texas Dept of Criminal Justice/Handout via Reuters)
(Liliana Segura is currently a senior editor for The Intercept, where she will be launching and contributing to the site’s criminal justice coverage.)
In the decades he spent filing stories from Jacksonville after visits to Florida’s execution chamber, former AP reporter Ron Word saw a lot that still lingers in the back of his mind. There are the images from the old days of the electric chair: The executioner’s black hood, only visible through a slit in the wall; or the electrician’s thick rubber gloves, worn in the event of mechanical problems. And there are the dramatic episodes: the execution of Ted Bundy;electrocutions in which “there were flames coming off the inmates’ heads”; the botched, bloody death of Allen Lee “Tiny” Davis in 1999, in a special electric chair built for his 344-pound body, then never used again.
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