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The '''electric chair''' is a method of execution in which the condemned is subjected to lethal currents of electricity, stopping the heart. Most states no longer use the electric chair, in favor of lethal injection, which is determined by some to be more humane. [[Nebraska]] is currently the only state that uses it as its sole means of execution, but it is not a state that frequently executes criminals. As of June 2007, Brandon Hedrick is the last person to have been executed via electrocution in the [[United States]], having died in Virginia's electric chair in 2006.

The '''electric chair''' is a method of execution in which the condemned is subjected to lethal currents of electricity, stopping the heart. Most states no longer use the electric chair, in favor of lethal injection, which is determined by some to be more humane. [[Nebraska]] is currently the only state that uses it as its sole means of execution, but it is not a state that frequently executes criminals. As of September 2007, Daryl Holton is the last person to have been executed via electrocution in the [[United States]], having died in [[Tennessee]]'s electric chair on September 12, 2007. Holton had elected this method of execution over lethal injection, a choice that is offered to inmates there on death row for crimes committed prior to 1999. <ref>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/11/tenn.execution.ap/index.html</ref>

The introduction of the electric chair led to support by [[Thomas Edison]] as a way to discredit his rival, [[George Westinghouse]]:<ref>http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/recording/edison.html</ref>

The introduction of the electric chair led to support by [[Thomas Edison]] as a way to discredit his rival, [[George Westinghouse]]:<ref>http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/recording/edison.html</ref>