The Chilling End of a Killer | Electric Chair Execution | Execution by electrocution | death penalty
4The Chilling End of a Cold-Blooded Killer | Electric Chair Execution | Execution by electrocution | death penalty | Death Row Execution
Death by Electric Chair: The Chilling End of a Cold-Blooded Killer
A former Army counterintelligence officer who became obsessed with an adult escort he met on the Internet was executed by electrocution Tuesday night for killing a young couple in Prince William County in 2001 to impress and help the woman.
Larry "Bill" Elliott, 60, of Hanover, Md., was electrocuted in Virginia's 101-year-old electric chair in the Greensville Correctional Center's death chamber, just the fifth condemned inmate to choose that method of execution since the state introduced lethal injections in 1995. He was placed in the oak armchair and secured at 8:58 p.m. After two 90-second cycles of electric current, Elliott was pronounced dead at 9:08 p.m.
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The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment. Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all cases without exception - regardless of who is accused, the nature or circumstances of the crime, guilt or innocence, or method of execution.
Execution by electrocution, performed using an electric chair, is a method of execution originating (and almost exclusively employed) in the United States in which the condemned person is strapped to a specially built wooden chair and electrocuted through electrodes fastened on the head and leg. This execution method, conceived in 1881 by a Buffalo, New York, dentist named Alfred P. Southwick, was developed throughout the 1880s as a supposed humane alternative to hanging and was first used in 1890. This execution method has been used in the United States and for several decades in the Philippines. While death was originally theorized to result from damage to the brain, it was eventually shown in 1899 that it
primarily results from ventricular fibrillation and eventually cardiac arrest.
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