Florida administers executions by lethal injection or electric chair at the execution chamber located at Florida State Prison. The three-legged electric chair was constructed from oak by Department of Corrections personnel in 1998 and was installed at …

The electric chair was the sole means of execution in Florida from 1924 until 2000, when the Florida State Legislature, under pressure from the U.S. Supreme Court, signed lethal injection into law. Although no one has been executed in this manner since 1999, prisoners awaiting execution on Florida's death row may still be electrocuted at their ...

2005年9月29日 · "Old Sparky" _ the 76-year-old cracking, oaken electric chair at Florida State Prison _ has been quietly replaced under cover of darkness with a sturdier modern replica.

2023年1月24日 · Florida’s current three-legged electric chair, nicknamed “Old Sparky,” was built of oak by Florida Department of Corrections staff and installed at Florida State Prison in Raiford in 1999....

2005年9月30日 · By 1986, 19 capital-punishment states had switched to lethal injection. Florida's chair, meantime, became the nation's busiest instrument of death, with the most prisoners in line for...

1999年6月9日 · The electric chair is made of oak and was constructed by Corrections Department personnel in 1998. It was installed at Florida State Prison in Starke earlier this year, replacing the chair constructed in 1923.

1999年11月10日 · Residents of rural areas such as the countryside around the state prison, in north-central Florida, had yet to receive electric power. But from Florida oak, inmates at the prison made a...

2008年7月8日 · According to Slate, Florida authorities were nervous that he’d break the chair during his electrocution and send a disconnected live cable scything into someone else in the room. It was time for the unthinkable: Florida retired Old Sparky and built a …

Edward Dean Kennedy – electric chair on July 21, 1992 (aged 47), for killing two state troopers after escaping another prison for a prior murder. Thomas Knight – lethal injection on January 7, 2014 (aged 62).

2019年1月23日 · Bundy died on January 24, 1989 in the unincorporated area of Bradford County, Florida after his “date” with “Old Sparky,” according to Ann Rule’s 1980 true crime novel “The Stranger Beside Me: The True Crime Story of Ted Bundy.” That was the nickname assigned to the electric chair in Raiford Prison, also known as Florida State Prison.