Electric Chairs, Only In The Philippines… And The US
Apparently, we’re there only two countries that use this method of capital punishment. In fact the US still uses it today. We adopted it from the US in 1926 and continued to use it until 1976. We then shifted to other ways, such as the firing squad (how very historic), and during the last approval of capital punishment, the lethal injection. Over its 50 years of service, the electric chain shocked to death 86 death row prisoners, among them Baby Ama, the three rapists of actress Maggie dela Riva, and the would-be assassin of Manuel Roxas, Julio Guillen.
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