Comments on: The Convict and the Currents https://hankeringforhistory.com/the-convict-and-the-currents-guest-post/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-convict-and-the-currents-guest-post Hanker: To have a strong, often restless desire, in this case for--you guessed it--history! Sun, 14 Apr 2019 01:41:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Filter Cloth https://hankeringforhistory.com/the-convict-and-the-currents-guest-post/#comment-60605 Fri, 26 Dec 2014 13:24:53 +0000 https://www.hankeringforhistory.com/?p=7429#comment-60605 The company founded in 1985, has total assets of RMB1.52 billion, occupies a total area of 800,000 square meters, and employs 3,000 staff members, including 98 senior engineers and technicians and 319 mid-level engineers and technicians.

]]> By: Grant https://hankeringforhistory.com/the-convict-and-the-currents-guest-post/#comment-634 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:16:13 +0000 https://www.hankeringforhistory.com/?p=7429#comment-634 They did. In fact, the day before they tried it out on a HORSE! (With no problems.) There is an article on Wikipedia that talks about the decline of the electric chair and its botched attempts at being a “more humane” form of execution. Surprisingly, the electric chair is still in use. The last person to be executed by electric chair was Robert Gleason, on January 16, 2013. (Here is the article I was referring to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_chair#Decline )

]]> By: Cotton Boll Conspiracy https://hankeringforhistory.com/the-convict-and-the-currents-guest-post/#comment-633 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:34:39 +0000 https://www.hankeringforhistory.com/?p=7429#comment-633 I’m not sure if you know the answer, but wouldn’t they have tried the electric chair out first, on, say, a dog or a pig? Folks back then were a lot less humane when it came to animals and given the newness of the technology, I would think they would want to have tried it out on something besides a person before the initial execution. Of course, getting an animal to stay in the chair in order to replicate a person might have been an issue.

Very interesting history lesson. Thanks for posting.

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