It is generally controlled below 200V, because when the voltage is higher than 220V or the current is greater than 7A, the victim will immediately faint or die immediately. Low-voltage electrocution uses the victim's larger body volume as a current circuit to produce electric shocks to the nerves, muscles and bones within the body at the same time, rather than just acting on the body surface.
Especially when the current circuit passes through the heart, it will cause extremely painful cardiac paralysis in the victim, which will lead to functional disorders of various organs in the body. When the torture is severe, not only will the person become incontinent, but the man will also leak semen. , women will discharge vaginal fluid. Extended information
1. Decline
Because the execution of prisoners by electric chair often leaves behind burnt corpses and a stench, which can easily make the perpetrators uneasy, the United States began to use poisonous needles in the 1980s. Injections and other methods replace the electric chair.
Another reason is that execution by electric chair is extremely expensive, costing an average of three to six million dollars per person, while injection only costs a few hundred dollars. As of 2004, only six states in the United States allowed the electric chair as a method of execution.
2. The first person
William Kemmler (May 19, 1860 - August 6, 1890), was born in Buffalo, New York, USA. The first person in history to be executed by electric chair.
Kemler murdered his mistress Tillie Ziegler with a hatchet on March 29, 1889, and was subsequently sentenced to death, scheduled for the morning of August 6, 1890 Execution took place at Auburn Prison in New York at seven o'clock.
However, due to insufficient current, William Kemmler was still breathing after the first electric shock. The second electric shock caused his subcutaneous blood vessels to rupture and bleed, and his body was on fire, but he still survived. He did not die until the third electric shock, but it was already 8 minutes after the execution.
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